Daily Archives: 2010-11-22

SwimGym. Keith came and washed some more of the cottage walls. It’s the first day for a while that we haven’t spent hours on the sheep and their fences; they have half the Front paddock for now and will get the other half when they’ve made decent inroads where they are.

Having almost completed the platform for the flying fox, instructions supplied with the kit, I find that the bolts are too short and too thin. We got bolts of a better size and fit and then I found that the platform, which is intended to be height adjustable, just goes from tall to much taller and so I’m not sure if it will work for us even on the lowest setting. And anyway the adjustment holes didn’t align with the various cross pieces so this was rather puzzling – but nothing that drilling a few more holes wouldn’t fix. I attached the painted MDF platform top and Karola and I took it out to the ha-ha – it’s very heavy – and there it will sit until Chris and Bridget next come up when they can help work out what to do next.

Karola planted five more trees and did some iris eradication. I dug half a post hole.

The Cottage Refurbishment

Nothing to report today.

Weather:4°C—16°C; 0.6 mm rain [79.6] 06:30