The reason I haven't blogged for a while isn't that we haven't done anything interesting but that we have been doing so much! With John here we have had some trips out and a fantastic, but very cold and windy, weekend on Saunders Island so there will be lots of pictures to come. Today we are off to Volunteers to show him the king penguins. In between John and I have been busy working on the polytunnel. Well he has been doing all the hard work as my hand was put back in plaster for another 2 weeks, to be reviewed Monday.
The polytunnel requires 8 deep holes for the foundation poles and 6 have now been dug. In the process several more very large stones have been added to the rockery which we are building at the same time. We also dug quite a few rocks out of the lawn in the hope of making it possible to cut the grass with a lawnmower instead of the strimmer which I find quite hard. We are just hoping we don't hit solid rock under either of the last posts.
In order to get permission to erect the polytunnel we had to guarantee to remove it before we vacate the property so instead of concreting the foundation poles in we are using anchor plates and packing stones and clay around them which is quite time consuming. Just hope it stands up to the severe winds we get here!
John has also been turning the packing crate we collected from the tip into a double compost bin for me (and doing some windsurfing).
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