Nights are drawing out

This weekend I had two trip to the lottie. Both were an antidote it having to put in some extra hours at the office. I do not do extra hours and especially not at the weekend but this is an extra special case. Saturday afternoon I went up to the lottie after work. Steve had put up the pallets to rebuild the muck corral. I banged in the posts and tied the pallets to the post with wire. I then fixed plastic the back wall the of muck bin and put paving slabs to hold the covering down.

However on taking down the old corral we were left with four steel poles stinking out of the ground in what is to be the car park. Since we could not get them out we decided to cut the pipe off low and bang the reminder of the pole into the ground and that is just what we did. I could only manage two before I ran out of steam. It is dark by quarter past five and pitch black by five thirty. The wind was getting up as well. It was all persuasion I needed to send me go home. However Steve and I had a chat about we do to the next day. Steve's chickens are getting busy so he had half a dozen eggs for me. H had a couple for Sunday breakfast along with her homemade bread and jam.



H is making the most of her food processor she got from Santa. Fresh baked Bread most weekend and this weekend H's famous cherry cake too. All very nice. Sunday dawned clear but I has work work to do. I got away mid afternoon and after a quick stop at home for a sup of Tea and a sarny, I went to the lottie. I had to stop off at home to pick up the peelings bin for the worms as well. The lottie was blown inside out from the overnight gales. My neighbour's compost bin lid cut a big hole through my bird netting. So there is another job to do. Steve and I measured and set out the new lottie. This was very satisfying. We were able to set out the new mini-veg plots. This is cunning plan. If we put up the mini-veg plots we can fill them up with the spare soil that is taking up the car park. So next job for the lottie is a couple of mini-veg beds and some paths. They turned out to be quite big beds at 1.5 x 8.5 meters, about 25 x 5 foot in old money. We finished off cutting down the poles and used the offcuts to bolster the muck bin. Just in case we had not done enough we knocked up some compost bins against he back of the muck bin. The area looks very much better. Once the soil is shifted the carpark will be over twice the size it was. Soil shifting is a job for a work party. I don't have the patience for wheelbarrowing long distances.

My new bins for the greenhouse came this week so if a can get some free time perhaps I can set up the greenhouse for spring. I still have to fix the broken pane. I also have to tidy up the back garden. Nothing but work which ever way you look at it.