Why isn't my name on this chair?

Joseph gets his turn in Tessa's chair. 

Who's been sitting in my chair?

and who's been sleeping in my chair?

(In order to understand this post you need to know that the chair is one of a set of four that I made for Abbi, Bella, Steph and Tessa when they were too big for a high chair. Somehow Tessa's has stayed with us and is just right size for a young man. And very comfortable. So comfortable that he fell asleep the first time he used it. ) 

Pruning...

Time to continue with the garden clean up. 

Amazing that the lupins are still in flower - sorry Judith. 

But now the visitors are here....

Expecting visitors......

Bella is coming so I am frantically tidying up...

The polytunnel had been neglected as there are no crops in there now just plants waiting for a home and loads of cuttings - hebe, penstememon and osteospernum are doing particularly well. 

And we have a fire every evening now so more firewood was needed. 

And I turned the compost in bins one and two into bin three. 

So quite busy really. 

Free at last, free at last.

Free of the house that is!  

Blue skies!

So back to the duck pond. 

My next problem is that I need to get plants out of the main pond without driving the moorhen away. 

I must get out more!

No really, if this rain doesn't stop I will go stir crazy. Today I fitted a back to the bench following complaints about it being 'uncomfortable'.

It is a hard life.

No work today either!  

Yesterday was glorious so we went up into the hills with Dafydd to find an Iron Age stone circle. We found it and saw some wonderful scenery too. 

And today I had to sit in the house and wait for a delivery.......

Still raining.

We are getting very bored.

It is so frustrating.....

when you have visitors but can't make them work because it is raining too much!

Progress on the goose pond.

Wooden edging going in to stop the grass growing into the water. 

No work getting done!

Abbi and Oscar are here so there is much sitting around playing with toys and not much work. 

But even playing with toys is tiring.

Water is a damn nuisance.

Especially when you are building a dam. Next time I must remember to wait until there is not so much water running in the stream. 

Once the cement goes off I can fill this pond and drain the upper one. 

Progress.

Still working down in the bracken field. There us still a lot of water coming off the hills and down the stream. This is the bypass pipe for the new dam. 

But there is still time to stop and watch the kites circling overhead. 

But there is nowhere to sit down at this end of the field so I have put up a 'seat'.

This is the view. 

Rain,rain go away...

It is rarely too wet to work ( no really it isn't ) but yesterday was an exception. 

Today was not so bad so I did a job that meant I got wet anyway. Pressure washing the polytunnel, greenhouse and all the slabs etc. and the equipment too. 

The difference a few years make....

I was browsing through old blog entries and found this photo of what became the goose pond. 

This is it now.