Daily Archives: 2012-07-21

Graham Harvey came round as planned mid morning with his wireless stuff and we tested it between the cottage garage and the pumpshed. To my surprise it worked fine between the inside of the garage and the inside of the pumpshed, but of course there’s no leaves on the peach trees at present. However I think if I can get a line-of-sight above the peach trees it’ll work well.

Graham and I had fish & chips for lunch.

In the afternoon I put up a bit of electric fence and gave the ewes their first 25 metres of the Orchard paddock. After that I undid the wires and took out the stay and, with the tractor, lifted out the strainer post that Henere was so upset about – because it started rising out of the ground when he began straining up the wires. As suspected it had not got a ‘foot’ on it – the foot is what stops these big posts pulling out of the ground when taking the huge strain of a fully wired up fence. I tried to pull up the other strainer at that place but it didn’t budge under fairly strong, but gentle, pressure so it’s probably got a foot,

When I got back I couldn’t find Bramble – I thought I’d left her safely in the cottage garden. Not in the garden, not in the cottage, where is she. Eventually I found her waiting patiently by the door inside the cottage garage; she must have slipped in when I went out there earlier.

Oak Avenue Weather:7℃—14℃ no rain [81.1]