Category: Yard and surrounds
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End of September 2018
So, I missed a week, and to be honest, weekly updates were probably getting a bit tedious. So here’s a round up of the last couple of weeks of September. The car park was full again 🙂 The neighbours on the caravan site cleared the Confer hedge trimmings that had been in the Dyke since […]
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15th – 17th September
Inside, we were very pleased to get the pew brought down safely and without too much drama. It’s the heaviest piece of furniture we own, being solid oak, and the bulkiest, as there is no way to disassemble it unlike all our flat pack stuff. Still, we got it in, and safely put against a […]
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25 August -3 September – Long, long weekend
So this was a much longer visit overall, a long bank holiday weekend, stretched into two weekends, and the week in between. There was a changing workforce, from just me for a couple of days, with up to 5 some days. It was generally good weather so once Christine had gone, more work […]
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Weekend 3 -17/20th August
Another long weekend, and those helpful elves are back again… Painting and plastering Rebuilding the stairs Cutting the grass (Again…) Taking down fences Clearing the goat’s stable Tidying fruit bushes, picking grapes and tomatoes, fixing shelves, testing the new wagon and finding butterflies in an old feeder
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Weekend 2 – 10/13th August
A long weekend. And lots of help. Christine came down to scope out the decorating required, and Dad and Dorothy came to assist in the mobile country cottage. Lawn mower was commissioned and tested Orchard tidied, and a few apples picked Meals were eaten Ceilings were painted and things were measured Wood from store demolition […]
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Weekend 1 – 4/5th August
First trailer full of ‘stuff” delivered. We had to park a fair way from the house, so that lead to job 1 – Demolition of the add on wood store. Almost complete – still a pile of wood to sort and move next week. And job 2 – adventuring into the orchard. By judicial […]