31st August 2021 - Tomato Blight and Tavern Update

Thought for the day :"Had dinner at an Elvis Presley themed steak house. Its for people who love meat tender..."

Slow start to the day as I lounged in bed a little longer than usual - only up by a quarter past ten ...

Had to microwave my cup of tea - hard times !

Sadly Susie found that her outside tomatoes were stricken by tomato blight and had to be burned. Sad result for all her hard work !!

these were rescued and will try to ripen - though they are Green Ones!!

 

Today the Bar tables arrived - sadly without the 3 inch screws required to put them together. The y didn't mention that int he advert ... but we will have to get a lot of screws tomorrow as I have run out for the paneling in the Tavern  

Did another coat of paint for the Worksheds and painted the window boxes black so they match ..

But I spent most of the day in the Tavern - working on the outer wall ...

Cheers !

30th August 2021 - Towards a Tavern

Thought for the day :"Neil Diamond makes the same healthy smoothie every morning... Swede, carrots, lime..."

Bank Holiday Monday - though in all honesty it was just like any other day here at Ffynnon Wen.

More work on the Tavern today - working upon the seating in the outer Tavern. Mirrors up and structure in place... 

Then was interrupted by Susie who wanted to  move her Chrysanthemums from where they were being eaten to a shelf in the Beer Garden - which meant taking the ivy down - which she did - and painting - which I did, and putting the shelf up.    Having done so - it seemed a good idea to put a couple of the lanterns in place...

Will have to paint the green flower boxes Black I think - Job for tomorrow.

So, back to the Tavern...

Getting there slowly 

Cheers !

29th August 2021 - Misty Mornings and More Tavern Work

Thought for the day :"you can always spot a dyslexic Yorkshire man ... He has a cat flap on his head.."

Sunday and the day started with a heavy mist across the garden - the first I have seen for this year...

So up early to let the Girlies out while Susie had a lie in ..

And so, since I was out, it seemed a good idea to get on with the Tavern.

Today was a little sorting of boxes, mainly finding storage for photographs until we get a chance to scan them in - maybe a winter job!...  The rest of the time it was moving stuff around to free a wall ready for putting seating and storage ... 

A lot of work but not a  lot to show for it but still making progress..

One wall clear

Napoleon is out catching the sun - just saying ..

And before we go - a little Welsh..

Cheers !

  

28th August 2021 - Rockery and BBQ

Thought for the day :"Bought a boomerang from a ghost. Bet it will come back to haunt me..."

Popped out to post the contracts for the house sale - went via Brynhoffnant to try to get gluten free rolls for Susie so she could eat at the BBQ next door this evening and ended up in Cardigan Tesco. Post Office was shut so put in the letter box - though no collections today - probably none tomorrow and Monday is a Bank Holiday so not sure if letters will get there in time. We shall see - have emailed the documents anyway.

Back and emptied the duck ponds and started re-filling. Did a little more in the Tavern filling some boxes.

We will get there in the end I think.

Meanwhile Susie finished her meerkat mountain project and set up a rockery and added some white stones.

I had a new project - to try to make a steady cam for the video ..

It is a little Heath Robinson but we shall see how it works (or not)

And on to a BBQ next door at the Romany Caravan 

Seems that now they have flattened the land it is a possibility for small faction group events ...

Pictures for reference ..

Seems like a plan 

Cheers !

 

27th August 2021 - Tavern and Meerkat Mountain

Thought for the day :"I just bought two Harry Potter brooms in Poundland! Quid each!"

Friday and sunny again ...

Started the day with a trip to the local dump - my mother would have been proud. 

I had ulterior motives - the peacock is triple bagged now and getting very rank as is at least two other black bags out there - and there were some electric goods that needed to go whenever I made the trip..

and so I got to the site and found that it is a private company that is doing recycling..  The result of which is that they stopped me as I went to the main skip and asked what I had .. Black bags of mixed household apparently is not acceptable - everything must be sorted..

They also would not take the recycled bags as they were also not sorted..

and so the very smelly black bags are back with us until the 2nd September - which is when the council will collect the black bags again ...

But a trip to the local store for lemons for a cheese cake, and fresh milk, and Buelah for layers pellets and mixed corn.

And back to work on the tavern...

Shelving and clearing and the Harmonium in place ..  making progress

But first - there was a box on the wall - a typical piece of Victor !! THese are the starter chargers for the fluorescent lights...

But the build goes on ... remaking the IKEA shelving units to fit over Victor's Box...

and into place

and a few additions and room for stacking the storage boxes...

And so the Harmonium now has a place..

Music Stand being fixed - glue and screws..

Menawhile, Susie has been out all day on Meerkat Mountain clearing the brambles, placing our Brithdir Stones and planting heather

And teh cleared area

Looking so good - (and those are the black bags at the top) ..

and dinner was home made moussaka, Susie's Aubergine, tomatoes, cucumber, potatoes, in fact everything except the mince.  Had a jug of Ffynnon Blanc as it is very near in taste to Greek Wine...

Cheers !