Time for a Haircut!

It seems that Saturday was the Last Day of Summer (at least that's the way it feels after the last couple of day's weather) and it was time to give the Ornamental Pear a bit of a trim.

Before - all frondy, but getting rather out of control

After - all neat ready for next year's growth . . .

Belated Blogging

Herewith the 'Blogs that Were Meant To Be' . . .

Sunday 7 September: Cool . . .

Well we finally got round to ordering the new fridge and freezer we'd been promising ourselves ever since moving - no more going out to the utility room every time we want milk for our tea! Sunday morning delivery - lots of polystyrene packaging. The fridge - actually in the kitchen - makes a subtle whooshing noise from time to time, which took a bit of getting used to, and the freezer (which has gone in the utility room) finally means we have room for something other than peas from the garden . . .

Sunday 14 September: Carrots (at least that's what I think they are) . . .

Pulled our first crop of carrots, strange creatures every one . . . a regular family of Mandrake Roots -they tasted ok though.

Wednesday 17 September: Sunshine . . .

Finally!

Saturday 20 September: Strictly Come Leching . . .

Men like Strictly Come Dancing too - but for entirely different reasons. Think the BBC has got the Saturday night ratings sewn up, Merlin was pretty good too . . .

Monday 22 September: Bootifull . . .

Not exactly free firewood this time, offcuts from the local building suppliers / wood merchant - help yourselves from the pile round the back, £4 for a boot-full.

Mind you I guess it will burn quickly being mostly pine. Took some unloading, but it's all stacked round in our drying area now, filled up a fair amount of space . . .

Free Firewood

Took a wander past some workmen cutting back an oak tree at the side of the road (just up from the house) today. Asked them what they did with the cut wood and managed to secure some of the 'smaller' logs. Some of them seemed pretty big, especially after 8 wheelbarrow trips up and down the road from where they'd left them!



Pretty good haul all in all - will need to season it, so it probably won't be ready for burning until next year, but it's added to our stock for then.