7th March 2024
With a good breakfast inside me, it was day 2 of vegetation clearing.
I felt like an explorer cutting through the jungle, it was a battle. I was well armed, with my saw, loppers and snippers.
First to go was the holly bush, that had sprouted wildly out of control. It was pretty dense in there, everything fought me all the way.
I was wearing thick gloves as the thorns were everywhere, and had to be handled with extreme care. That is when I discovered that one of my gloves had a hole in a finger, ouch!
I worked my way down the side of the shed creating a good space to do my re-cladding job next week.
By the end of the day there were huge piles of various vegetation stuffed into large garden bags ready for the tip.
If you recall, I had problems with the laptop that I have been using in the US, stopped working. I had idea what was wrong, but I knew someone who might.
So I brought it back with me. It was an old machine that weighed the equivalent of a paving slab.
I had arranged to meet Derek, my sister’s ex husband who I had promised to gift him a wooden guitar that I had made as part of my Guitar shaped project. He had repaired another laptop the last time I was here in October, so the timing was perfect. He kindly took my old machine back to his home to check if the hard drive still worked. I kept my fingers crossed that the data on it could be saved.
He later messaged me to say that the hard drive was okay, but the laptop was not.
Another Lifetime to go 