Today was forecast to be wet and windy. It was sort of neither which was a bit annoying as we could probably have done the pigs today. Ah well. Instead Ady did some pig fence repairs as Barbara is in season and keeps escaping – we have this every single year around this time and then she gets pregnant and calms down. He also moved animal feed around the croft. We have wheelie bins at the bottom of the croft where he puts the feed when we first get it delivered and then he moves it higher up a sack or two at a time to various places where we feed the pigs and birds.
I planted the yellow roses for Granny. A climbing rose bush next to the rustic erection archway into the walled garden to train over that and a bush near the caravan near the herb spiral. I cut some more basket making stuff and then came up for lunch.
After lunch I went back down and started a small basket with holly. I need some thinner material to use as twine and tried splitting some holly but it didn’t really work. Also I didn’t quite grasp the next step in the book from the photo or instructions so need to google or youtube it to get my head round it better. Ady came down to the shed where I was working and helped me staple up the crochet bunting I’d made – a job for at least three hands if not four rather than two! It looks nice, looking forward to getting the kids bikes out and setting things up in there properly. Ordered some fill a foam and tarp to finish off the bike shed Ady built last week so we can get that all done and the bikes moved.
While we were doing that Neil appeared coming to ask if Ady would help him set up electric fence in one of his fields tomorrow as his horses and sheep keep getting out. He stopped for a chat and admired the shed (not very effusively but in Neil’s world it was admiring!) and then headed off back down the hill. By then it was getting dark so I came back up to get pizza dough made and Ady fed the pigs.
We all had a really long chat about life in general, whether we are all still happy here – yes I know, we have it regularly but I’m wobbling just now and needed the other 3 to reassure me why we are doing it, and Christmas.
Pizza, prosecco and Doctor Who. Winning Friday night combination!