Posts that Didn't Happen: August 2025

August is usually a pretty 'stay at home and avoid the school holiday crowds' month, so it was an ideal time to be busy with consultancy work, which continued throughout the month off and on.

On the nicer days we got out in the garden for some weeding and de-brambling (generating material for the next bonfire!).

Martin also potted up some of the 'babies' from our rather prolific spider plant, and later in the month we started to harvest apples and potatoes from the garden (it's not been such a good year for tomatoes).

There was trip in the Van across country to visit with family - another hot one - and some minor works on Van things like fly screens, draw catches etc.  

Martin also got stuck into creating the much planned for table to sit between the front cab swivel seats and the passenger seat - again he utilised pallet wood, which was glued together (never quite enough clamps!), then cut to size.

This was then sanded to within an inch of its life, and is already looking beautiful.

Next steps are to 'finish' it with Danish oil, and work out what type of legs / fixings we need to put it in place, and allow it to be removed when not in use.

Towards the end of the month the dodgy window in the barn door was finally replaced - a bit of a saga that one, but got there in the end.

On a less savoury note, this month has also seen a house invasion of large green slugs - these appear mysteriously, almost every other night, in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Slugfest! (as it has become known), eventually came to an end when we tracked down their point of ingress to a gap under the skirting board by the back door - now safely sealed!

 

And finally . . .  

Is it dead yet?

No it isn't!