Idleness

The weather remains too cold to dig. I have been down to the lottie to check it is still there and to feed the birds. Mr Google say I should prune my grape vines during the dormant period in the winter so that is a quick job I can tackle.

I have not been idle. I have doing some house fettling at home. I took the crow bar to the dining room last weekend. It did not take long to fill a cubic meter skip with plasterboard and other assorted rubbish. I kept back all the timber. When I finish the house jobs I shall de-nail it. I am sure I can find I job for it. The rag bone came round on Sunday. They were happy to take away the galvanised ducting and few bits of copper pipe. There is not enough to make it worth my while taking it to the scrap merchants but for them the little bits add up to a pay day. H was not happy that she did not get a gold fish. When we were little the rag bone man with his horse and cart would patrol his round. He would have a little present for the kids that brought him stuff. A gold fish in a bag, probably got from same place the fair people get theirs and it last just as long, a donkey stone or a windmill or a balloon or a lollipop. We were easily pleased back then.

Sunday I tidied up the wiring and fitted a new light pendant. I put the ceiling back up and plasterbroad the new walls. Each evening this week I have done a little job. Monday repaired the holes in the floor, Tuesday Fencing [cannot miss that], Wednesday patched the damaged plaster, Thursday levelled the floor. So I should be in good order for the weekend for more ceilings and laying the floor.

I have also seen the farmer who is going help us with the new allotment plots and held down a full time job. I am thinking about what to get started. I know some lottie buddies will have lots of stuff started. I lack a heated greenhouse or a huge sunny window sill so setting seeds is still a few weeks off yet for me. I dare not look in the greenhouse to see if the plants I over wintered have survived. Fingers crossed. I though I might repair and clean my hive frames but the wax is as brittle as a wafer. So having wasted a couple of wax foundation sheets I gave that job up.

H is perusing the catalogues and paint swatches for the dining room decor. I hope she like Magnolia.