I *think* I’m back. I appear to have lost everything between March and now but in the scheme of things that is liveable with and far preferable to losing everything which looked like it may be the case earlier in the week. Gulp.
Fortunately I have not blogged much on here this year really anyway, and have been more active on the other blog and on facebook so can probably cobble together enough to do a round up post for posterity.
So, I won’t try and catch up on 8 months of blogging but will talk about this week which has been a good one. We had a great day making sausages and salami in the hall, sausages are delicious, salami is hanging in the polytunnel and will be a wait and see deal before knowing how that pans out. I also sliced up the bacon which had been curing, rolled up the hams and gammon joints and the freezer is groaning with pig produce 🙂
Also we finally broke ground on the house plot site. Top ditch is about a third of the way dug, the curve wall is all dug and we have over half of the outline of the house. Based on that progress I reckon two weeks of digging will clear the site. We have found subsoil not too far down, there are threads of clay so far but nothing of any quantity but that is fine as we know we have clay elsewhere on the croft, it would just have been incredibly easy to be digging it out of the house plot rather than digging it elsewhere and barrowing it to the house plot. At the moment we are just spreading out the spoil but we may need a better plan than that eventually. For now though it just feels good to be finally making some practical physical progress on it and being out there doing something towards making it happen.