Have felt most outdoors deprived of late.
I worked this morning at post office – Scarlett came down with me but Davies appeared an hour later with some cash so they bought some sweets and wandered off to play. I had a nice morning chatting to various people and selling stamps.
I found the kids and we went home for lunch.
Ady had got two more loads of washing done so he made lunch while I hung that out and then everyone scattered outside doing different things. Ady stayed near the static to watch the washing machine and moved some pallets around to allow some ground to dry out and preserve some other ground from getting too messed up before the better weather dries it out. The kids and Bonnie headed off adventuring, while I went to the fruit cage and gave it a really good tidy up, collecting some blown around cardboard and plant packaging, snipping off the ripped netting that had been the roof, cutting off the long ends of tie-its used to secure things. I took the door off, repaired it and netted the whole thing before fixing it back on. It needs the netting secured a little more with some string which I’ll do tomorrow but I’m fairly confident it is now chicken proof. Yay 🙂
Next job is to chicken proof the raised beds and plant out the chitted tatties. I also want to do some more sowing in the polytunnel although that could wait for a not such weather day.
Our plan for tomorrow is a trip to the village to collect post once the ferry has been and then the start of the cob chicken house trench, we’re hoping to carry on with that on Wednesday which should pretty much mean the trench is done and we can put down drainage and start gathering stones for the first layer of the foundations / chicken house wall. Tomorrow I’ll re-read that chapter in the book and make a list of the stuff we need.
Ranger Mike was due up to dinner but didn’t arrive – he has a lot going on so I assume either he forgot or something happened (there have been several incidents these last couple of days). I rang my parents and we gave up on Mike and had a later dinner than we’d hoped. Ross and Rachel have just split up in Friends, Scarlett shed a tear or two.