So having put that behind me, I buried myself in the garden this morning (not literally). I have been shovelling soil and laying weed resistant membranes plus Donna and I installed two more posts, glass finials and a piece of trellis last night. I suppose that we have completed about half of the necessary work now and with the Easter hols upon us we might get it almost completed. The finishing touch will be when we order a ton of twenty millimetre golden shingle to cover the membrane and provide a stable weed free (HAH! Yeah... right...) environment down that side of the garden. I don't want to do that until we are good and ready. If you leave a bag of shingle lying around, the locals will help themselves to it in the same way that they would fill a skip with their rubbish if you leave one unattended. Shingle will make the garden a bit sterile and will removed an area of hedgehog foraging ground but I have left one quarter of the garden untouched at the far end to provide the bugs and beetles for the poor little wretches. I came across our tame hedgehog the other day looking very surprised to find that he couldn't climb onto the raised beds I have been building. I am sure that it is only a matter of time before he discovers a way to do it. I have heard that hedgehogs are consummate climbers. On top of that I gave the lawn its regular scalping this morning. It looks relatively smart where I edged the paths the other day (haven't I been busy?). This meant a dustbin full of grass clippings which I didn't want to leave in the fortnightly green waste collection because it would go slimy and start to smell, particularly where that collection doesn't take place until two weeks hence. So despite the high price of petrol these days I scheduled a trip to the local amenity tip via the monastery to drop off the four cakes that Donna has baked the monks for Easter. That's four large Victoria sponge sandwich cakes with liberal quantities of jam and butter icing as fillings (strawberry in two and apricot int the others) and a thick layer of icing on top with candy sprinkles. Needless to say the monks were suitably grateful for the gift. Then it was on to the local garden centre for more weedproof membrane and then to the tip. Everything is looking tidier now and I can afford to take it easy for the rest of the day.
Tomorrow I might be a little late getting an entry onto my blog because I am off up to London for the day. I suspect that I will be stuffing my face in the Whitehall cafe to begin with followed by a walk to the British Museum to see the Afghanistan exhibition and then on to the London Museum for the afternoon. I'll tell you all about it when I get back
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This chap has certainly got his eye in. What an acrobat!
It isn't often that an innovation occurs in the motor industry and it is even rarer for that innovation to happen in the engine department. This new invention looks like it could change things quite dramatically.
If you are a fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films then you might find this clip interesting. It is about the production of the forthcoming film of the Hobbit.
youtube time. A tribute to the A10 tank killer with music by Yellowcard - "Breathing"