Van Stadens

Saturday, 30 April 2011 Did the runaround yesterday to find high pressure glue for the the join and also had the bright idea to put a shackle around the thin pipe and try and pull it out with the car so we set off with high hopes to tie up a whole lot of loose […]

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 I indicated previously that the number of unfinished jobs on the line was getting a bit out of hand so today we concentrated on finishing a few things and the old nursery was a good candidate. Ellie and I arrived quite early and we dug the first section of pipe in

Tuesday, 26 April 2011 No pictures taken today, just a quick run out with Neil to install the air release valve on the line and to try and fix the pinhole leaks by the shack. As it turned out the clamp we brought was too big but I applied a temporary bandage with a piece

Saturday, 23 April 2011 Teamwork today, Neil, Rob, Jenny and us. We hoped to give it a good go today and we did, even though some of us didn’t see it that way. It is just such a lot of work that sometimes it is discouraging to see how little one can achieve in a

Thursday, 21 April 2011 Did the pipe really go underneath the road, that was the question which needed to be answered today so as soon as we arrived we extended the last hole we dug and found that instead of disappearing underneath the tarmac the pipe made a sharp turn back again. We felt like

Friday, 08 April 2011 First plan of action today was to connect the water to the two-inch pipe we discovered at the old nursery and we were very pleased when we arrived at the reserve to see Rob already there. After a brief chat he disappeared to work at digging the pipe in between the

Sunday,03 April 2011 For our monthly meeting we had the pleasure of inviting Adrian Odgers to come and share his vast knowledge of plants with us and, what is usually just a short walk from the conference centre to the rockery and back, we took over an hour to cover this distance hearing interesting information

Friday, 01 April 2011 Popped out to find the leak we discovered a few days ago and see what we needed to fix it. It rained quite a lot yesterday and, combined with the leakage, made for quite muddy soil. We duly asked permission from the ‘madala’ who lives on the plot, he looks a

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 Quite a day of lots of different things, Rob helped us today and at first it was a bit of adjustment for him to fit into the well oiled team. Ellie and I are of course so used to working together that we don’t need to say what needs to be

Friday, 26 March 2011 No blogs from the previous two trips, the first one by Ellie and I to make a path from Gibson’s Gulch to the river crossing, not quite your average garden job but we managed and then another one by Neil to wield his chainsaw to cut the offending pine tree down.