Happy as a pig in..........

I have had a very busy fortnight, travelling here and there, seeing people. There was the promise of an outing to the Railway on Friday night to discus Dave P's plans for his plot. We might have a drop of the black stuff too. Just for medicinal purposes you undestand and as as part of our civic duty to support local businesses.A couple of hours talk nonsense and slurping the black stuff was a nice antidote to the couple of weeks of charging about. Steve told me that that the secondhand scafforld boards had been delivered. We resolved to meet up the next day and sort out the scaffold boards and Steve's muck pile.

I had a list of things to do Saturday morning including dropping off my Potato order to the Newall chaps. I tried two places for Garlic bulbs but came up empty handed. I had to accompany H to Tamworth. Whilst there I picked up some artist supplies for Miss L. I got home in time to get changed, nip over to collect my muck trailer from Netherseal, chat to Angie [she is getting a new horse to replace the one that died so that means more muck for me] and get back to the lottie to meet Steve and Dave.I had emptied my trailer by the time they turned up.They had been over to Steve's poo source and turned up with a trailer full of muck and a couple of kids in tow, one from each family.

We emptied Steve's trailer onto Dave's plot and set off, in convoy, to Steve's muck source in Hartshorn. At Steve's stables they have a big trailer into which they dump the mucking out. We filled both our trailers to the brim which, by luck rather then judgement, emptied their big trailer. I went to get into Degsy only to find the kids had made themselves comfortable in the passenger seats, strapped in and ready to go.There is not much you can do when faced with such an emphatic decision. They were as good as gold whilst I wrestled Degsy and the ton weight trailer up the long hill from Hartshorn. We got back to the lottie and tipped the muck. I had half a dozen barrow loads of muck dropped on the Asgaragus bed. I am not sure that is the right thing to do but it is done now. With luck it will smother the weed seeds. The sun was sliding towards the horizon and the temperature was dropping too. We parted company with me resolving to see Steve the next day to collect me scaffold boards.I ran my trailer back to Netherseal. Then home for tea.