15th August 2018
Another gruelling ahead. The hounds woke me at 6.00am so breakfast all round. Watching them eat is fascinating, whole lumps of food disappear in a gulp, there is no finesse, it’s dog eats dog out there, literally.
As I arrived back at the cottage, and opened the door I heard a whooshing sound. I panicked, and rushed in to investigate. I discovered that the kitchen extractor was on.
There was no explanation, I had not used it since I had been back, but there it was sucking air.
I needed to go to Screwfix in melksham to purchase the router cutter, so cleverly, I thought I would load up the truck and dump it at the recycling place just round the corner. When I got there, I discovered they were closed on Wednesday, oh that sucks, so back to Trowbridge I had to go.
The new cutter certainly did a great job of depositing sawdust on to the lawn, or what was left of it. I completed the machining of the shelf, and then ended up vacuuming the grass.
Once the shelf is in place, no one will know the amount of work that went into it, it just looks like a slab of wood.
I settled down for my final evening of dog sitting. I gave them their dinner, and called Kelli.
Since I have been away she had done a brilliant job of finding stuff, and selling. There are some jobs that she doesn’t have confidence doing, one of them being cutting down a top. I have given her precise instructions on how to do it, but she’s not happy. He father doesn’t feel fit enough to do it for her, and with no one else to call on, she’s stuck.
Another Lifetime to go 