There has been a nice dry patch after this morning's rain, so I've been able to put out a few bales of mulch. Taking all the tape off the cardboard to go underneath it is the tedious and time consuming bit. If all goes to plan there will be some rain soon to wet it all down for me.

Edit: still no rain, and the sun came out again. I've done a couple more bales of mulch, so I've now covered the full perimiter of the yard where the new beds are going, at half the width of the beds I'm planning. It's actually been really nice weather for working outside.