Thursday 10 January 2013
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| The ruins on the right hand side of the drive going up to Duncombe |
Finally I have
started on the website for Duncombe and gone back to writing the next book on
husbandry and training of birds of prey. It has taken me a while and one of the
problems is that I try to keep up with emails, and I never seem to catch up. So
I have said Sod It, and started anyway. I find that once I start writing I can
usually keep going, but it’s the starting that is the tricky bit.
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| John and Mark liked the title of this book - working eh!! |
Holly and Ben
have been painting in the flats. We are going to have to completely redo the
bathroom, but Simon’s old flat apart from some somewhat dark paint is not too
bad. It is now white and looking much more cheerful. There is a long way to go,
but it’s a good start. Adam’s will be needing rather more work as I have to try
and get all the paint off the woodwork, which will be fun I don’t think, and we
had to rip out the kitchen!
Mark and John
did a film job on Sunday, in Tesco’s at Wembley. I am looking forward to seeing
it on the TV. Needless to say when they text-ed us to say that they were on the
say, they did not tell us how it went!!! However they phoned again and it went
well! So another one under the belt done and dusted as it were. And useful at
this time of the year.
The weather has
been dry for several days now, wonders will never cease!! It makes such a
difference. However Dave who wants to come and collect his logs that have been
sitting at the bottom of the field since January has not got a hope in hell
until the ground is a great deal better than it is now, and it is going to take
weeks of dry weather before it is drive-able on I suspect.
I took the
remainder of the Christmas decorations down. You have to do it on January 6th
or it is unlucky, but I did not get much chance to enjoy them as I rarely get
them up until close to Christmas Eve. So everything is now packed away for
another year. Linda did the bulk of it for me on Friday, but we left enough up
so that it did not count!!
Leaf is doing
well with Richard, she seems to have settled and is playing with all the house
dogs, we have to hope she will behave when he is away.
Interestingly it
takes half as long to get through to anyone at Gloucester Royal as it does to
get a bedpan!! And apparently you have to pay for your X-rays to get them,
although a physiotherapist can’t treat you unless you have them. I think that
might be construed as blackmail!!
We have taken
nearly all the stuff that needs to come out of the flats, so the dog can see
the rabbit as it were. The dump will have some, the bonfire some and the scrap
man some. All will be gone by the end of the week I hope. They are going to
look fine once they are redecorated and cleaned properly, they just need some
serious TLC right now.
And Mike has
nearly done the new drainage in the car park so we hopefully will not get a
flood down the back steps and across the front of the shop, should be great if
it works!! We are also putting down new gravel in the car park entrance, so if
you drive in in the next couple of weeks, come in and out slowly and drive a
different route each time and you will roll it for us!!
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