There's plenty of brickwork going up at the Walney sensory garden, and we're now seeing the fruits of our labours. Mike, John, the County Probation Service and Eureka Environmental Services, have all been a great help in bringing the garden a stage nearer completion. Eureka moment Now you may or may not have heard of Eureka, who're part of Community Action Furness. Their links with BBC Radio Cumbria don't just extend to the Walney garden, as I found out when I was chatting to Eureka's Brian Killhope the other day in the garden... Eureka hope to be able to help the youngsters at Walney School look after the garden once the Voices project ends. Top soil On Friday, Wilsons of Endmoor delivered us 41 tonnes of good topsoil free of charge, and over the weekend, with the help of the Probation Service, we're barrowing it into the garden. We've also had donations of soil from Newbiggin, and some rocks from Barrow this week. And, I can reveal that planting has started! Kevin, Carl and I got some sweetcorn, onions, celery and lettuce in one of the raised beds yesterday. Those of you who've offered plants and help with planting, expect a call soon! Feature by Paul O'Neill How to help With only a few weeks to go, we still need plenty of help. Just come and help for an hour if you can. Call Gail on 01228 474291 (or 07801 679757).  | Left: Gail prepares the cement to set the boat in. Right: Slabs as a makeshift table. That's John, our volunteer bricklayer, in the background. | 
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| Right: Setting the boat in cement. | 
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| Right: The finished face on the boat - what a masterpiece! | 
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 | Left: Painting the face on the boat. Right: Paul O'Neill rests his legs in the background! | 
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 | Left: One of the raised beds filled with topsoil and ready to be planted up! |
 | Left: A volunteer moves a barrow of topsoil into the garden. Right: Gail and a helper shovel topsoil. | 
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| Right: Paul O'Neill tries to persuade BBC journalist Neil Smith to wheel some barrows for us. | 
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 | Left: A heap of red sandstone on a derelict site near Walney which we would like to use in the garden. But no-one seems to know who it belongs to... |
| Right: The first plants to go into the garden! Paul O'Neill's sweetcorn plants which he's grown from seed. | 
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Return to these webpages soon for another update on the Sensory Garden's progress. Thank you to those who have helped the project | 
