For a while we have been interested in getting some weedguard rather than plastic for the nursery because the plastic doesn’t last very long so when Neil managed to get some at a very good price we jumped at at. Slight hitch, we had to collect it straight away and off we went with the […]
Never a dull moment, this time it was a geocaching event organized by Wikkelgat, I love the names these funny people give themselves. As part of the worldwide Geocaching day they had hidden a few new caches but the main reason was to socialise and have a braai and what better way to socialize than
The other exciting activities lately such as bird hide, water pipe and nursery have taken the focus a bit away from the arboretum so today we spent some time there. Thankfully Jenny is making sure that the new trees do not lack water but to keep on top of the undesirables coming up after the
As mentioned previously Rob discovered a leak in our water supply a few weeks ago but as the water was still running and there were tons of other things to do I tried to ignore it. However when we inspected it last weekend it was obvious that it had been running for quite a while.
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Wednesday was a truly miserable day weather-wise so we decided to postpone it till today which turned out to be a very good idea. The plan was to secure the other droppers as well and put the shade cloth on for the windbreak. It all worked out quite well and this is the result: I
Went out today with the sole purpose of stringing the wires for the windbreak. I had made a nifty gadget to tighten the wires and it worked so well it lifted the poles out of the ground so it turned out to be a bit of a disaster. It did not make me a happy
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Moving Proteas to the platform before very Open Day is a schlepp and it would be much easier to move them earlier and also straight from the shade house. Two problems, water and wind. The first one was solved a little while ago when the I managed to open the rusted stopcock of the water
A mixed group from Woodridge and Eton College came to give us a hand today with some of the things we would have liked to do but didn’t have time for. We split them in three groups of eight. Rob and Keith were in charge of the Podylaria assault. Ellie took the Eton rugby team
The past few months I have not only been busy building the bird hide but also got some more grey hairs programming an interface for our weather station to the internet. Last week it was installed in the Fovs room and today it was time to mount it outside. So far it is working well
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Ellie decided a while ago that it would be a good idea to fix the ride on mower which has been languishing for about five years in the shed with a broken engine. She used her charms on the various committee members to get them to agree and this is the result: Tony does not
