Moving And Swinging

Up Early Again

Once again we were up and off to McDonalds for our traditional team cheeky monkey Saturday morning breakfast. Before this whilst the Blur and I were still getting dressed John popped up to lotty to let the girls out, and brought us an egg home. So with our bellies full it was time for us to work it all off. John got busy repairing the floor of the shed, and I got on with cleaning out the coop. After the first clean out we decided to put down a bit of tarpaulin in the coop so as to just pull it out along with the hay, wood chip and a few unmentionables. After the first run carrying wood shavings down from the hut I changed method and put the next two bucket fulls in the wheelbarrow, and unsurprisingly managed to tip it up. Luckily it just missed the new rows of herbs we planted last week.

Brian came in for a look at the girls and devastated John by ruthlessly pulling off the unwanted leaves from our tomatoes. The next task for me was to pull apart an old pallet so we could use the planks of wood as a new floor for the shed. I did manage to hit myself in the wrist a few times with the hammer before I get the hang of it and was pulling the boards off within seconds after that. As with the hammering it took a while to get the knack of pulling the pins out of the planks, but i got there in the end and it didnt take long for us to have a brand spanking new floor for our shed.

During all of the work the Blur was stung by a bee. After a few seconds of flapping she gave me her arm so I could pull the stinger out and she let John suck the rest of it out. I was very proud of her for not crying and in no time she was over it all. When we'd done what we were going to in the morning John and the Blur made a swing in the pear tree, using an old stool seat and some steel wire.

After a bit of dinner at home, giving us a chance to get a flask of tea and a change of clothes (at least for me because it was more dress than jeans weather). Then back to lotty to do what we could on the shed. As it may be used as a green house in the future we put a glass roof on the shed and there are plans for a glass door too. With not much else for me to do there other than bandage up the Blur who's been in the wars today, I took myself into greenhouse 1 to start making up pots of compost ready for the arrival of my special project seeds which should be with us by the beginning of next week.

We had a bit of a play around by the fire, throwing on all the bits of netting we found while we were clearing out the shed, and I found a little blue/green flame and John told us we'd thrown on some copper wire which burnt that colour. John the secretary came in with his two grand daughters to see the chickens and told John he was a bit of a celebrity now. We must have the best hens in all of the allotments (but we already knew that).

With nothing much else to do without a charged drill battery, we headed of to the Chinese, to pick up some food and it was mine and the Blurs chance to learn how to use chopsticks. Took a bit of getting used to but we got there in the end.

Thank you John and Blur Blur for a lovely day at lotty.