Today and tomorrow have been shuffled round so we get to spend our last working day at the new house. This meant this morning we were off to the healing garden. This was a funded project, opened four or five years ago in the grounds of the towns medical centre and includes fruit and veg, willow structures, contemplation space, herbs and plants with medicinal uses, information boards and more. There is funding for a part time member of staff and a full rota of volunteers work in the garden as well as it being the site for various course.
We were cutting down a very high privet hedge which is preventing light from entering the garden, restricting the view down to the harbour and village from within and blocking the view of the garden from outside. Permission had been given take it down to about 3 foot high (it was about 10 foot high when we started) so we spent the morning doing that.
It was most enjoyable, the sun shone, the work was hard but worthwhile and with an obvious look back and see what you have done appeal. We had a teabreak in the potting shed and Scarlett and I nipped to the Co op for a packet of biscuits. Scarlett had looked under one of the shelves in the Co Op yesterday and found a pound coin so was obsessed with the idea there was more cash lurking underneath the fixtures in there. Sure enough she came out with two more pound coins and some coppers. Very lucrative 🙂 She gave half her findings to Davies too which was very sweet :).
Carina was working inside and came home filled with glee at the receptionist who had invited the kids in to play with the toys in the waiting room but Ady had declined telling her they should be outside working with us and then she walked by later and spotted Ady cutting one bit of hedge and me cutting the other which had loads of brambles in it. She’d been horrified at what a nasty man he seemed which is obviously laughable and entertained Carina no end 😆
Ed arrived with a message from the garage that Willow was ready and they were just giving her a run to test her, we then saw her drive past which was quite strange with someone else driving :).
We finished the hedge – a remarkable difference. I think every single person who walked past stopped for a chat with us which was just lovely, there is such a community spirit here in Tarbert, it really does feel like living in Balamory!
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We came back to the house for lunch and then walked down to the village to collect and pay for Willow. The man said he had spent the morning reading our blog and done a few extra bits (reset the timing, tuned the engine) and would only charge us half price as he loved what we were doing 🙂 He had also written a little good luck message on our invoice 🙂
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which was very lovely 🙂
We headed back and spent an hour chainsawing and stacking some logs before heading fishing for an hour or so. We were the only people on the pier today and it was windy and a bit cold but Ady got a catch!
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The blokes in the background were doing some repair work to the pier and said we’d been the only people to catch anything all day :).
Back to the house for dinner, fish cakes :). Julie rang so we had a long catch up chat and Ady and I walked down to the Co Op for a bottle of wine while I was still on the phone. The village is lovely at night, all twinkling lights over the water.
Tomorrow is our last working day and Ed and Carina are taking us out for dinner 🙂
I do love that invoice 🙂 One for the scrap book 🙂
And also, Ady with a beard??? I like that too! And make that sound a bit scary when you tell him 😉
Comment by Alison — 09 September 2011 @ 8:00 am
Alison beat me to it. I’m not really a beard person, but it is giving Ade a certain – you know – charm 😉
Comment by Joyce — 09 September 2011 @ 6:49 pm
I like the way it looks but it is a bit scratchy! 😉 Will pass on your messages (he’ll be terrified!) 😆
Comment by Nic — 09 September 2011 @ 9:42 pm
Ooooooo I love Ady with a beard!
mwah!
Comment by Layla — 15 September 2011 @ 9:28 pm