tidying

A garden!

Making the garden in Clyne look presentable whilst The Carpenter helped Daughter's husband (MD) in the house.

Five black bags of weeds to the council recycling depot where they make compost! The Carpenter raked the lawn which made a convenient mulch for the weeded flower and shrub bed.

Then painting the fence on the patio, as the warm bright sunny day disappeared and turned into a chilly hazy one.

Hopefully the house will pass inspection on Wednesday as being fit to rent. Then there will be a final clean and hope to get decent tenants this time.

Allotments

Today we went to Oakdale to collect posts and fencing wire from the area association HQ.
These will mostly be mending fences on our site.
Before lunch I cut down some blackcurrant bushes on the Man's plot....the Dreaded Big Bud. Then I started digging up the roots, ready to burn the lot. Hopefully the other patches of red and black currants will be ok, but we are keeping an eagle eye on them from now on.....

Lunchtime, and being the Allotments chairman, my Man had to go to the school!! (the school they couldn't keep him in when he was five!!) The school is having an allotment plot, things must be discussed.

Meanwhile I went to prepare lunch, and whilst waiting I set out pots and background ready to photograph........no joy......flat battery in the camera....it is on charge now, but takes an age.


Still no Man for lunch....then I discover that the man with the rotavator is turning the school's plot! Take lunch to Man!!!!

Back for a cuppa, as he is getting tired- not enough food and definitely not enough drinking, let alone breaks in between jobs!

The weather has been so beautiful today, the warmest this year. I gave him a lift back up the "hill", ready to start the evening feeding and checking round.

I did not want to come back down here to the noise and dust.

I've just felt lost since I came back down. I wish we could find, literally, a half-way house.

Spring?

The buds on the "Concorde" pear were swelling fit to burst a couple of days ago
Now the weather has changed again. This is going up to Mynydd Maen from the south, yesterday.
and looking over the valley at home to Spiteful at the foot of Sychpant (not so much of a "dry hollow" today!)
On the mountain this morning it was trying to snow and the wind is still strong and cold.

weather!!

No snow here, just ground like stone.

Good thing I lifted vegetables from the allotment yesterday and brought the last of the pumpkins in from the greenhouse.

The voles had found the potato store in the shed, so they are now safely stacked in crates in the larder!

The mountain here is clear and frozen, if anything that is harder on the stock than snow.

I should be throwing pots....but a cold workshop is not an attractive idea!!!