To be fair to her, even the student does not advocate cutting wood in the rain. Whether that would be the case if she was somewhere else and not expected to help is another matter entirely but, with rain cascading out of the sky she looked out the window and announced managerially that we would not be using the chainsaw today.
Relief all round then, settle down for some computerology. No, said she, we would "just" get some wood in ready. So I was duly sent to the wood yard where it turned out the woodman has a busy week ahead and has been busy so 8 cords of slab wood were sat in his yard.
Commandeering the students C5 estate and dragging Bruce away from watching doctor who on I player off I jolly well set.
"Fortunately", next door need some wood so the first two cords went there. Just, the rain as been torrential and with neither 4 wheel drive and not going fast enough to activate traction control, it was a struggle getting the C5 across the field, but anyway we did it.
Next load was ours and this is where it is quite worrying, even my yard is now so wet that the Citroen struggles to get traction to reverse the trailer into the bay. I can see me having to head down there and get all winters wood on the floor while conditions are still drivable.
The rain today had to be seen to be believed at times and even on the road, where mud had been washed off the fields, I had to keep the speed above the magic 20 MPH where traction control kicks in and feel the front end judder as the electronic nanny scrabbled for grip. 20 MPH with a bleedin big trailer nailed to the back is towards the top end of amusement I want on these little narrow windy country Welsh lanes.
It is at times like this you notice something that's very similar about Cross Channel Ferries and Citroen estates navigating slippery narrow lanes with huge heavy trailers on the back. You will not see the student behind the wheel of either......
She has a marked reluctance to even be in the former, though her enthusiasm for being on the latter is legendary, and who can blame her....
R
Relief all round then, settle down for some computerology. No, said she, we would "just" get some wood in ready. So I was duly sent to the wood yard where it turned out the woodman has a busy week ahead and has been busy so 8 cords of slab wood were sat in his yard.
Commandeering the students C5 estate and dragging Bruce away from watching doctor who on I player off I jolly well set.
"Fortunately", next door need some wood so the first two cords went there. Just, the rain as been torrential and with neither 4 wheel drive and not going fast enough to activate traction control, it was a struggle getting the C5 across the field, but anyway we did it.
Next load was ours and this is where it is quite worrying, even my yard is now so wet that the Citroen struggles to get traction to reverse the trailer into the bay. I can see me having to head down there and get all winters wood on the floor while conditions are still drivable.
The rain today had to be seen to be believed at times and even on the road, where mud had been washed off the fields, I had to keep the speed above the magic 20 MPH where traction control kicks in and feel the front end judder as the electronic nanny scrabbled for grip. 20 MPH with a bleedin big trailer nailed to the back is towards the top end of amusement I want on these little narrow windy country Welsh lanes.
It is at times like this you notice something that's very similar about Cross Channel Ferries and Citroen estates navigating slippery narrow lanes with huge heavy trailers on the back. You will not see the student behind the wheel of either......
She has a marked reluctance to even be in the former, though her enthusiasm for being on the latter is legendary, and who can blame her....
R
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