feeling your pain. been there, doing that. tell me, did the Mrs say it would only take a couple of months btw?
And my first brick wall made from my mother in laws old garden wall which fell down 10 days 2 hours a night with a kango hammer cleaning mortar off...
Everyone says that....im still lightly tubby tipping 16stone with arms like twigs....ive not lost a pound....digging the firepit was approx 20 tonnes in itself....that was 3 weeks (2 hours a night during the week days) and 4 hours each day on the weekends and just to make it really hard once id gotten down below 18" it was clay all the way....the hole at the top right was for the soakaway (another metre down again)....