ON any saturday

We awoke to a lovely clear day today. Time for some wholesome family activity.

Processing a ton of fire wood.

With the less safe chain sawing over we got all the kids out and set about the task of splitting and stacking loads and loads of wood. With three of us splitting two on wheelbarrows and the rest on carrying and stacking duties, 11/2 hours saw everything done and out of the way.

Now I dare say some social worker somewhere will be horrified at looked after children being in close proximity to axes and flying wood but this is all normal country life stuff and we are set up with a few weeks supply of wood.

From there it was on to the big shed building project of Tallies and of course the sad bit.

Now management is rather a whiz with a sowing machine and Bethans choice of Xmas gift was therefore not entirely good news.

Then an "alleged" friend mentioned a place locally where a former television dress maker has set up a store that deals in cloth. Now I had known about this place for years but had successfully kept the knowledge to myself.

A bit like she would if someone set up a green goddess parts place just up the road well maybe that's not a good analogy, I already have my own.

But, anyway, away we went and got to a place of open wallet surgery. A former farm house and barns filled from floor to ceiling with rolls of cloth and bits.

Fortunately, this place lived up to it's reputation for value and management was able to get enough material for a number of projects for less money than I had expected.

There was a big down side, management has seen lots of good things and says she will be back.

Then again, while she is doing these projects she cannot be bothering me. I could be outside doing important things like building a fire station...

R