We watched Nigel Kennedy and his band performing their take on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Proms a couple of nights ago. I loved seeing Nigel stomping about the stage and thought the young Palestinian soloists were terrific, it was a very exciting performance and interesting to hear a violin go all Eastern. I was grinning all evening.
Chas had a grass mowing and chain saw cutting day yesterday, more fire wood for the winter safely stowed away. He used the electric saw bench to cut up loads of kindling, I’ve been collecting it from the fields too as we are going to use far more now we have a wood burner in the office too. I had been grading fleece all day and was pretty fed up by tea time so had a humdinger of a bonfire with some of the hedge Joshua cut down and a load of fleece with moth in it. Metaphorically I danced on the pyre of those moths. Oddly when you are grading I always get fleece in the armpits of my shirt so I look like a Yeti woman. Just have to hope no one turns up before I have removed it.
Today we’ve been doing breedings. I’m feeling a bit pale and ghastly as something I cooked last night disagreed with me. Drunk pints of water to try and dispel the dehydration headache and then an American stud male gave me a dead leg. A bit much. Watch out for the barbeque boy. I hung on to the wall trying not to swear, should be a good bruise.
We are about to start badger fencing a new field we are renting opposite one of our own fields. The flat bed is full of posts and gates, the small gauge fencing is due to arrive this week. The best thing for me is that more hedge will have to be cut back, so more wood, I am a woodshed obsessive. It will be a lot of work but we have a post hammer that goes on the digger and a thing that goes on the tractor that stretches a whole row of fencing so it will be a DIY job.