Byw yn y gwlad.....

Today was one of those lovely autumnal days, crisp warm enough with just a hint of breeze.



So of course we started it by dropping Tallie in work and his car in the garage. Back home via the farmers merchant to get more chain saw oil  note to self get lots when you go to France cos it's loads cheaper there.

Soon the sound of axe on oak was heard together with the wheel  squeak of heavily burdened wheelbarrows.



Next came the 2 stroke yowl of chainsaw which was cut short as no one son had used all the fuel trying to start a V8 yesterday.


Still it's all progress and we are running out of storage space for the mountain of wood we have processed. Perhaps I have overstated that but we had to do some rearrangement in the garage today to make room and the cottage is next up for realignment.

The stack  in the garage is 6 foot high 20 foot deep and about 6 foot wide.

The cottage about 8 foot high 6 foot deep and 14 foot wide.

Thats a lot of wood but we are not finished yet. 

We are thinking of getting some cheap tarps to put over the wood when we completely run out of storage and that day is not such a long way off.  

It's been a bitty day though.


In the midst of all this we got some new tyres  on the AX and towed the hapless 806 over to greasy garage.

It must be said that this was not the most relaxed part of the day, the 806 weighs a bit and half way up the 25% hill the Xantia was scrabbling furiously trying to get grip. Somehow we got past the hairpins and delicate throttle control kept us on the move. Management loves being towed - not. 

If she dislikes being towed, being a passenger with her is something I find errr interesting.

Keen to experience the new tyres off we both went tonight to collect little D from school.

School being a special stage collection of twisty lanes away. Management to be fair was very impressed with the pin sharp handling on the new tyres.

She was impressed to the point that the AX was going to be the mode to get to Uni tomorrow. Then of course, full of joie de vivre the AX got dumped into a corner too far. Far too bloody far.....

We didn't actually hit anything but she has now decided it might be better to take the Xantia tomorrow.

 There is even more good news though, she is very pleased with herself as she thinks she has now got the hang of powerpoint. Indeed tonight she downloaded some lecture notes for tomorrow and she was full of beans about how she could alter them to make them more sensible.

She should really be doing more powerpoint practice but she has gone off with Tallie driving to see one of her little mates instead. I think she might have taken a bottle of wine with her.

R