Inner strength
Wheelbarrow wheels are notoriously expensive. We’re talking £40 or so for a barrow that costs £70 or so. Dilemma, it’s not that old, spend half the cost of a new one makes it an expensive barrow, and what do you […]
Bang, bang, you’re dead…
Or so it seemed. Peaceful place to be, our neck of the woods. The Donks are grazing, the sheep are in the stable, pinching what the Donks have left, and, bang. A noise like an air powered nail gun, followed […]
Shortback and veg plot
It is that time of year again and hedge trimming is now the priority, one of the Autumn jobs that we look forward to. it’s out with the trimmer, up with the ladder, and on with the gloves, as rake […]
Two plus doesn’t add up
Old Father time has taken it’s toll on some of the bantams, and there are only two left, looking lonely and sad in a large coop which originally housed eight. Sandie had the bright idea of adding two (code for […]
Add a print day…
In the three years that Joan has lived here, we have finally unearthed her favourite prints as we have now tidied the garage. So, of course, they had to be put up!
The tip…
apparently the correct, woke, word/description is “recycling centre”. That’s not a sudden realisation, obviously, I am reasonably up-to-date about modern developments, it’s just that I can’t get out of the tip habit. The tip is located in Llandod and like […]
Coronavirus chronicles 1
It all started in February, as I recall. Gradually entering the sub-concious that “China flue” as the Donald calls it, was something we should be concerned about, and little by little we all started to realise that something was coming […]
Mast…
Beech mast, that is. Now that I’ve used the word, I have Googled it and realised I’m using the word incorrectly. Mast is the word that describes beech nuts lying under a tree of that name. The dogs love them […]
It’s wet.
Not very, but hopefully enough to deter at least some weekend visitors. The last two weekends have been sunny/hot, and as lockdown was eased, a barmy army of treckers crossed the border. BBC news estimated that 200,000 plus motorcycles were […]
Late Summer colour
The Chinese call it late summer, the period between summer (everything fresh and bright), and autumn (everything jaded and prepping for that season). A very wet two months at the beginning of the year, followed by an early drought, and […]