Laying out the new maze

We started to think about the maze. After dithering with designs by various 16th and 17th century garden writers (Lawson, Hill, etc) we settled for one by Batty Langley, c.1728, which is pretty much the same as the one at Hampton Court. Although ours will not have high yew hedges, but low lavenders, thymes and other fragrant herbs. Now that the swamp - dubbed Passchendaele for the depth and consistency of the mud - has been dug over by the Duke of Edinburgh teenagers, the technically-minded amongst us were sent in with string and pegs to lay it out.