The house maintenance that is.... Today I dug a small bed out for the Beech Hedge and found a grat big lump of metal dug into the ground. I couldn't budge it even with my pallet breaker bar and so used brute force and ignorance (of which I have plenty left) and my trusty club hammer and bashed it down a little further and folded the edges in, burying it under about 6 inches of earth and a soon to be Beech Hedge. I went to plant some of the other trees but t'other half was going out so I didn't, instead I chopped up some of the barbed wire fencing I'd dug up! That can go to the metal waste bin and then I repaired the gutter which had come loose for the second time in seven years. I hope that I have actually sorted it out this time. On inspection the gutter ends have disappeared and so I guess they got blown away in the gale as they were there a few months ago.
Then the Trickle Vents need doing so I've ordered those. The gaps need doing and I've got stuff to do it but the ground is water logged making it difficult to get my steps to stop sinking into the earth! It's like quicksand by the side of the house.
I have a list of things to do that's about a mile long and so let's hope the weather improves and I can get to do them. I have a builder coming over to look at re pointing our wall and fillings in some gaps and repairing some mortar joints.
And to top it all I've just found a leak in the airing cupboard where the new tank went in a few weeks back. I was hoping that it was just a stain from the previous leak but this looks as if it is either a new leak or something not tightened up.
The garden is so very slowly getting sorted but it takes so long to get anywhere. At least the little hedge trees look to have taken so far.
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