At last a lovely sunny weekend, still a nip in the air this morning but lovely gardening weather. Let’s hope this gets things moving after the poor run of weather most of us have suffered from. I keep catching bits on the news that horticulture is suffering so we may get a small sympathy vote to help us along the way. It’s at times like this that you hold on to any little signs of hope you can see, after all it can’t get any worse can it? Last week was boosted by the great thank you card we got from the local school, the thought of a nice long bank holiday weekend, and the prospect of the turbine man getting all three going in unison on Wednesday.


Had a lovely break, literally. Spent half of Sunday in casualty after Caroline took a tumble in a garden where we were delivering a big cat pen as a favour to a local cat charity. A change of route for carrying a bulky part across the patio and a failure to complete a valid manual handling assessment of the new path, resulted in a fairly innocuous backward sit down and the appearance of a second elbow near the wrist, ouch. No mention yet of the fact that I was pushing on the other end of the load! Anyway, she was patched up on Sunday in time to complete the VAT return in the afternoon and returned on Monday to have it ‘realigned’. This involved a strong dose of ketamine and a team of staff to pull it straight and rematch up the bone ends. It all went really well and the post pull x-rays showed a really good result. Back this Monday for a full cast now the swelling has subsided. She has coped really well although it is only when you become slightly disabled that you realise how much you need all your bits to work well to cope with ‘normal’ life. I am now a dab hand at pulling on socks, slicing up and carrying stuff. Things are taking a bit longer especially as it was her right arm, but she gets there in the end and a couple of extra hours at work means she still manages to get through most of the jobs! Apparently doing things with your left hand improves brain activity and helps stave off senility, if only I had known earlier.

The engineer’s turbine visit went well too. He recalibrated the anemometer on the troublesome third turbine and that seems to have sorted that out at last, but during his inspection of the turbine nearest the house he found a fault which has meant he had to turn it off while they sort out a repair. No word yet on how long this will take but they are trying to rush it through. At least with having three, when one goes down we are still generating from the others but it is frustrating. I wondered whether to suggest that the problem might be in the cables to all three being just too short. When they repair one they pull the cable a bit and it pulls the plug out of the other, which is why only two out of three ever seem to run. I know a lot about turbines me.

Eco News

After years of having an artificial house martins nest on the house which was used every year by house sparrows nesting on top of, it is currently occupied by its first pair of house martins, hurrah.

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