Travelling On

Morning all!

Mega-SB-survey, nearly 10% of a £10 Amazon voucher, hurray, so I've got my voucher and well on the way to the next.

Jobs are going well - after second breakfast, I'm going to have a little bonfire, even though its grey, its warm enough. That helps with the garden, gets things tidier. And need to carry on digging out a *new* set of brambles today . They, and a dozen or so baby cherry laurels, were underneath the old bonfire pile. Just goes to show how important it is to carry on with a job once you've started it

Morning!

Very tired after the bonfire work, but just been out there to inspect the ashes, and there's lots and lots to sprinkle on my little heap of goodness for the soil later this year.

I'm heading off to my first U3A group today, in spite of the tiredness, so nothing else doing. R&R v important

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Enjoy your group, KC:beer:

Well done on your bonfire efforts too:T.. OH has been working his way through a mountain of thin but long tree branches for the last 3 days, sawing them to fit on a fire that wouldn't extend across the whole garden:eek:. Between heavy rain and winds in the wrong direction he finally had it all finished by yesterday teatime:j. We give anything suitable to a fellow-villager for their wood-burner but they didn't want the stuff we had this time:(. They have only recently moved here and are still living the idyllic country life. Their purpose-built log store is an aesthetic dream, absolutely full of uniformly cut and stacked logs. I'm not envious but just curious how they can go to all the time and trouble just for appearance's sake. OH has offered to chop and split our big branches/trunks for them (he likes the exercise:eek:) but the recipient says he'd rather have them as the are so he can chop them himself. Everything we gave him before was of a suitable burnable size but after seeing their log store since then OH realises they weren't artistic enough;)

Oh boy :eek: they sound a bit .... unrealistic :rotfl:I have very little experience of actual woodpiles for fires - when my sister had the French cottage, one of my first jobs was to walk up and down the grass, picking up wood that would clog the little sit-on mower - it created a lovely little pile of kindling, but no logs :rotfl:

I have a gut understanding now of indoor air pollution - I had a shower last night, of course, but the smell is in my hair, and woodsmoke is actually full of carcinogens .... very powerful.

beanielou wrote: »

No wonder you are tired.
I slept for 4 hours this afternoon:eek:

Thanks beanie! Having now done two things in two days, I'll be interested to see how my body reacts the next few days, it takes a while to crash badly, but I think I'm going to be okay.

pinkypig wrote: »

Great effort on the garden clearance :T. What was on at the U3A? Some of the things my friend's mum does are brilliant (she loves art).
Hope you had a lovely day

Thanks! It was a genealogy afternoon - take your own laptop in, do your own research. It was very focussed on Ancestry, and on Ancestry DNA, and I'm just not going to pay a subscription of nearly £100 a year, plus all the faffing about with certificates. Ancestry have enough free days to suit me, and if I want more, the library has a full membership. But I can usefully input some information to let it back up my info a little bit more. That always helps.

There's another couple of family history groups, so I'll try them too, and I have a "should" for French, but I *want* Spanish I'd like Ancient Civilisations, but the speaker on Monday was supposed to be great, and she was very poor (i'm an academic type, there's no two ways about it ). Science might be interesting. Local history too. There'll be something positive. I'm glad your mum has found the right thing for her