7th November 2024 - Lost Mr & Mrs Snowy - Fox

Thought for the day :"Accordion to a recent scientific study, inserting instruments into messages often goes unnoticed."

Dry 

Rhys is unwell so Dave is on his own working the second Pine end ...
Hacking off the render. Decisions to be made - whether to take the stone out as we did in the other end, as the stone is very poor, but decision to mesh the existing stone back into the render and then render the whole pine end rather than limewash. Hoping that it will not tap moisture in but the blockwork is fairly sound and this end does not get the heavy weather. Decisions - but a week' work or five weeks work. we are getting to the end of the treasury !

Walls all painted with weathershield

And lawns cut - probably for the last time this year 

Sad news - the Fox struck again.

Sadly lost Snowy our new white cockerel and his mate the white hen 

Though we had lost this one as well but was hiding on top of the Chicken House !

 

Only feathers for the rest 

But dog walking is beautiful at this time of year - the autumen leaves are wonderful.

and more fungi 

Cheers 

6th November 2024 - And Painting the walls

Thought for the day :""My mate asked me if I could name any famous Syrians.
I said, "Well, there's Botham, McKellen, Duncan-Smith, Fleming""

smattering of rain

So the walls are getting on with the lime mortar pointing coming on very well 

Meanwhile in other news the Ducks are getting to know their environment 

  

and autumn is settling in with lovely change of colour in the leaves

and the chicks are getting bigger 

and so we have a new brooding area 

portable and stackable - it will serve us in the future as well if necessary 

And we spilled a pot of paint into the workshop and it would not be able to be used again because of the muck in it - so decided that rather than waste it - I should do the white walls with it - so have been painting today. Scraped it off the floor into a tray and dabbed it onto the walls 

Cheers 

5th November 2024 - November 5th but no fireworks

Thought for the day :"The problem with Vampires, is they never learn from their mistakes. They seem to have no self reflection"

Wet 

So, just before we opened Dave put this new step together for us as we had seen a few people stumble in the dark and it was an accident waiting to happen. We are looking to add a hand-rail as well later ..

Thanks to Sarah for the warning tape to go along the edges

In other news, finally got to the Oxygen Centre in Cardigan to hand over the cheque at a time when they were there. This is Gina ...

Cheers 

Wet t wet don’t have any self reflection

4th November 2024 - And Breathe - but open again tonight

Thought for the day :"My mate asked me if I could name any famous Syrians. I said, "Well, there's Botham, McKellen, Duncan-Smith., Fleming"

Dry 

Didn't finish the barrel - so we opened again for the Monday evening and managed to finish most of the barrel with a couple of 2 ltr bottles taken to Will and Joy ...

Successful end to the weekend 

Must say - just opening for an evening is better than the whole day 

 

Cheers !

3rd November 2024 - Tavern Nights

Thought for the day :"I hate people who can't let go of the past. Debt collectors are the worst!"

Dry 

Didn't take many photos 

Cheers !

2nd November 2024 - Spooky Weekend for Velindre Cancer Centre

Thought for the day :"I would offer moral support but I have questionable morals."

Dry 

Four Riders of the Apocolypse, and a fat guy in a skeleton suit....

No Sound for some reason

Cheers 

1st November 2024 - And Open for Halloween

Thought for the day :"Don’t you think cost of food has risen?
I bought some venison yesterday. That was deer!"

DRY

Dave and Rhys worked all day to get the job finished and clear up so that there was good access into the Tavern 

And Nancy came up with Torren and the Halloween decorations that they had been using in Narberth, and luckily no customers came until we were pretty well finished 

Sheila and Tony Bryant came in full costume and also helped with the musical entertainment 

cheers