not much damage

So far…
Lots of small branches and debris around, and it seems most of the leaves are off the trees now, but we came out relatively unscathed.  The roof of the growers coup flew off sometime after the early morning check, and ripped the netting we have over the hen run, but the hens were unhurt [...]

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stormy

It’s horrible out there – really windy and rainy.  There are severe weather warnings in place. The worst will be overnight into morning.
It’s always worst when it’s dark – as you can’t see whats going on, just hear it howling around the house.  Our roof is old… the 90ft leylandii trees from next door are swinging [...]

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rain, reclaim yards and rogan josh

What to do.. a miserable day, so we went to the reclamation yard.  I love it there.  I just love all those made to last old things – the  cast iron fires, aluminium watering cans, mangles, doors, gothic window frames, granite slabs, foot scrapers.. and so on.
Officially we are table shopping – our dining room [...]

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rayburn days

Although we haven’t had any rain for ages, it’s certain colder..  actually it’s piles of jumpers all round the house weather.  What I mean is.. we get up, it’s cold, jumpers on, then the sun comes out.. warm.. jumpers off, then sun goes in cold, then we cut some logs, warm…
But the Rayburn has been lit [...]

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the shower project

In January 2008, we rashly decided it would be nice to have just one room that was presentable.. a sanctuary from the damp, sag and ruin that is the rest of our home, and set about removing the wall paper, only to find that behind that the supporting wall wasn’t – that is not only [...]

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as one door closes…

Well another door is made.  What we mostly did today was make a new shed door. Because the old one was not wide enough.. when it’s wider we can move everything out of the cool room shed, which we now need to store apples, jams, wine etc, as we were storing it in the old [...]

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last steps in the big freezer plan

another rainy day, so, after a late and pleasant start, drinking coffee with family etc, we declared it an indoor sort of day, and did a little DIY necessary to accomodate our new freezer.
Yes, we have saved enough to buy the new one, moved everything around as this bigger freezer uses about a third of [...]

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move around

Now that the cockerel run is free, we cleaned out the house, and moved everyone on one. So the six LS chicks are now in the cockerel run, and looking like they appreciate it it a lot, they were pecking about, lying in the shade, avoiding each other, huddling in groups and generally doing what [...]

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