9th April 2026 - Chris Day - clearing the Parking Lot

Thought for the day :"Trained Pets are awesome! I had a goldfish that could break dance on the carpet. But only for like 20 seconds. And only once."

Wet 

Chris came over for my first day home alone ..

We decided that we would carry on with the parking area as it was raining and the car port provides cover 

and the result 

tops cleared to allow the flowers to return 

Much more space

Sadly had to stop as the Chain saw is not oiling properly and the casing has overheated so the cover will not fit properly - looks like a trip to Tremaine tomorrow!  

And gong down to put the girls away this evening, the garden is really coming to life 

 

Cheers 

8th April 2026 - And Susie to Crete

Thought for the day :"I must be getting old. I've just had some alphabet soup and had to put my reading glasses on."

Dry

Off to the Airport to take Susie for her trip to Crete.

Zephyr stayed and looked after the dogs for us 

Found a three  quarter full bottle of Moniack for her 

So, have a Tilly Vision in the Tavern 

In other news
Fuel prices today £1.89.9 for diesel  £1.56.9 for petrol - filled the Juke up for £60.54

Cheers 

7th April 2026 - And breathe....

Thought for the day :"Cottage cheese is not actually a real cheese - its just a curd to me"

Dry and hot 

So, the day after the Tavern

Managed to get the banners taken down while Susie went to Cardigan for some shopping but failed to do anything else except clear the glasses....   SLEEP !

Counted out the charity box and £126.24 in there 

Early night as off to the airport tomorrow 

Cheers 

6th April 2026 - Tavern - last day in the sunshine

Thought for the day :"Took a sneaky pee in the swimming pool today. Lifeguard blew his whistle so loud I almost fell in!"

Dry

Monday and the best day we have had - still not very warm but bright and sunny.

A steady day - with customers almost all day - Two jugs to start the day with our friends who have their own Mead Hall and that was the kegs dead so we started on the bottles.

Will check stock but seems that we did about 3 dozen bottles, ran out of mead and most of the country wines.  Hecks was well used as well. all in all a good day 

Seems I didn't take many photos

 

Blue bells well out 

Cheers 

5th April 2026 - More Tavern - Not so blowy - not so wet

Thought for the day :"I wanted to recycle my tea bags, but Tetley took out a restraining order"

Dry

So Sunday morning and Dave has been at it again. Went out yesterday morning to Jewsons and got wood to make a new sound booth so we can use the new sound deck and make sure that it is water tight.

Of course that means removing the rockery and flattening the ground out first.

But the finished article works well - with single cable to remote box ont hestage.

And it being Sunday of course we had the horses

And Leif had a ride of course

And 3pm we had the Easter Egg hunt 

About 10 children in the end and they foudn them very quickly including the Golden egg 

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And the evening was a little more chill with Ollie and Hannah stayng over in the Yurt and Matt and friends enjoying the evening.

Had a sing song in the Beer Garden rather than the stage - worked well  

Just about finished our fourth keg!

Cheers 

4th April 2026 - And Tavern Open

Thought for the day : "Scientists created a dolphin with legs but Animal Rights groups wanted to remove them. I thought that would defeet the porpoise"

WET!!!

Yesterday was very busy - moved a keg and a half on the first night 

Decided that it would be appropriate to get another keg of Rock Steady and put iot on. Dave was heading to Jewsons so picked it up on the way 

 

A terrible day of rain and wind - losing an umbrella and the whole beer garden frame moved two feet, but a good time was had by all as we crammed 37 people into the Tavern with only a few smokers struggling outside.

Got better later and Steve Caste was with me so we had an hour with electric violin and guitar and vocals which seemed top go down well.  

And video 

Cheers