30th November 2021 - Piano Tuned !! And a Tavern Evening..

Thought for the day :"Your mind is like a parachute – it does not work unless it is open"

Morning working on the netting for the Chickens - due to the avian Flu restrictions.

Managed to sew all the existing netting and then broke some pallets to get wood ready for tomorrow. 

Then Piano Tuner arrived - and after a couple of hours has managed to put our piano into some sort of tune - while awarding us the "Piano Most out of Tune for the Year" award.

But an excellent workman and spent far longer on the task than I expected ..  Earned a bottle of Moniack in my view ...

While he was working I put the latest 1000 fairy lights into the beer garden and have to admit that I think it is a great improvement. Also put some fence lights onto the trailer, gate post and to light the dragon and entrance to the tunnel ...

 

Doesn't really do the beer garden justice..

Had a lovely evening with Malcolm and Gloria in the Tavern...   

Some singing and Proseco and Mead - what more can you want ??

Cheers !!

 

29th November 2021 - Just a Thought - and the Dentist

Thought for the day :" You don’t see many philosopher puns these days. I suppose it’s a bit of a Nietzsche market..."

Cheers !

28th November 2021 - Playing Catchup - Just a Thought

Thought for the day :"According to my Chocolate Advent Calendar there are only three days to Christmas"

Cheers - Just a thought 

27th November 2021 - Storms

Thought for the day :" As a child I was often bathed in cheap Australian Lager - when I was 18 I found out that I was Fostered!"

Power cuts and guests 

Will catch up - so Just a thought today 

Cheers 

26th November 2021 - Power cuts

Thought for the day :" Bugs Bunny won't use email or messaging - he will only accept a Whatsapp Doc"

Running Test this morning

Terrible wind and storm this evening 

not much else to say 

Power cuts in the storms - no time for anything else

Cheers !

25th November 2021 - Happy Thanksgiving

Thought for the day :"Mount Rushmore – A rock group of four guys who can’t sing or play"

Long day today - and a successful one. Started breaking the pallets and removing nails and then got on with paneling the lower half of the back wall of the stage .. 

No pictures of the back wall yet, but as the rain started - I though it best to get the fairy lights in place - working from the single switch in the Tavern so can be worked later by a timer if necessary.

 

Rather happy with the result 

But got interrupted by a Jewson Lorry trying to get up the lane. Now our lane is pretty narrow and has a sign at the end saying "unsuitable for  long vehicles" and that is because you cannot get past Idris.

But the driver had got as far as the back door and decided to stop and ask where he was going - Trem Gawel - the house next to Trefor and Carrie with the horses.

Well - he decided to go on his break and set his Tachograph to resting and abandon the lorry - while I took him in the car to where he was trying to deliver and show him the right road to get there. Popped a cone up at the junction with Felin Ganol and parked my car at the Romany Caravan with a sign saying that the road was blocked.

In the end - we managed to reverse him back down the lane and on his way - but an adventure !!

In other news - saw these and thought they were funny..

Thought that they were worth sharing ...

Pip (Boss Lady) arrives this evening - so will leave it there..

Cheers !

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving !

 

24th November 2021 - Rain stops play...

Thought for the day :"Spent £50 on a large belt that did not fit. What a huge waist!!"

Day started very nicely with a chilly (though not freezing) and sunny morning. It was actually a delight to go and let the Chickens out.

The day soon deteriorated into mizz and then later heavy rain..

But I took the trailer to Cardigan to get some more fairy lights for the stage / performance area  - too wet to put them in!!

But dropped into Tesco and bought some stuff that was probably needed and then to Beulah to the feed garage and collected 5 pallets - which were too wet to do anything with other than take them off the trailer.

Very wet to put the Chickens away - but the good news was that when Susie found that Sooty had laid 18 eggs in a nest in the undergrowth - they ended up in the incubator...

Turns out tonight that 16 are fertile!!  We shall see what happens when they hatch!

Intended to have a Tavern night tonight with Malcolm and Gloria - but the weather was a little foul so we suggested trying nest week instead. The Proseco will keep and the stage may be further completed...  Next step is to panel the back of the stage and put the lights in place.

Temperature is dropping again - but Boss Lady "Pip" will be visiting tomorrow...

Cheers !

  

23rd November 2021 - Towards a Tavern - The Stage

Thought for the day :"I'm not sure what I should do about my indecisiveness."

Camera ran out yesterday so never managed to get a picture of the final decking for the stage / performance area...

Pallet facia at the front and 6 x 1 planking for the decks - was wanting to go with proper decking but the sheets were over £20 each for 3 meter by 5" (I know that is a mix up of metric and old money but that is the way it works) 

Planking is secure 

Fitted around the tree and forming a storage area

Curtains at the moment - but will be wooden frame at the back

Tavern Sign for the Performance area

And this is what the coal arrived on - so will form part of the back wall of the stage 

So, Susie went to Carmarthen today for the doctors to see about getting a CT scan  rather than a magic eye. Can't complain about the service here in Wales for the NHS. Follow up to mail test last week - appointment with specialist prior to his normal surgery today - and booking in for Scan int he next couple of weeks!

I walked the dogs and broke a pallet up...
Was enough for one day ..

Very cold today - first day that I have needed an extra layer on in the kitchen.

In fairness though the fire in the living room is putting out a huge amount of heat this evening ...

Still waiting for the Liquid Gas people to contact ...

Could be a long waiting game ...

In other news - Susie collected some leaves today - the colours are wonderful ....

And from Mythodea 

The Barden Heim - Home of Vollsanger

In the Tross

Tanja - I said I would write her a Song

Cheers !

22nd November 2021 - A Brisk Morning

Thought for the day :"Unsure what to do today. Will go to the optician first and then we shall see"

Early Start!!

Delivery of Coal Briquettes from Beulah was scheduled for 9am!!

That meant getting the Chickens and Peacocks out early - and as I walked up the Garden the delivery arrived...

That was a good work out - a ton of Coal moved first thing in the morning!

I am getting too old for this lark!!

and then the Wood arrived for the decking on the stage / performance area.. 

That was the next task for the day and though I thought I had taken photos of the completed task - we will have to wait for tomorrow for the final version. Think that the battery ran out!

 

But early - it was good to take some photos of the brisk morning 

crisp and white 

Sun coming up over the Garden

A good frost this morning 

View back to the house

Fabio in the Sun - but it was cold!

Paddock in the morning 

View from the Paddock

Ffynnon Wen

And out for a walk to the fields

All crisp this morning 

Sunshine on the Donkey Trail

Puppies

streams

And the Before picture for the delivered wood !

And some pictures from Mythodea ..

Cheers !