We Just Found Out Our Garden Was a Toilet for 140 Years… So We Dug This!

140 years of sewage straight into the garden — and we only just found out.

No soakaway. Just an ancient septic tank and raw waste soaking into the Highland soil. So we fixed it… the hard way. Subscribe for weekly vlogs — DIY, croft chaos, dogs, bees, and big holes: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/foxesafloat. In this episode: We tackle a rural DIY sewage soakaway installation — completely by hand, with no digger, and a lot of questionable decision-making. Shaun digs like a hero while we battle Highland mud, buried history, and a serious case of “why didn’t anyone fix this sooner?” We also check in on our Highland bees after winter — and dig out a blocked burn to stop it flooding the croft. Classic Scottish rural life: mud, bees, trench work, and a bit of chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBPnbCU6Y4