A relatively quiet work weekend. Bob came, and Sal dropped in for as long as she could between other responsibilities. They played us some lovely tunes on Saturday. It rained a lot, so we did a bit of chair-stripping in preparation for having more than just the one re-upholstered pub chair.
Sunday was the Alternatiba festival of ways to avoid climate change, which Bob, Anna and I did a bit of stewarding for in the morning. It went off pretty well, was well attended even though it was rainy in the morning, and hopefully will be the first of many.
In the afternoon, Bob and I set some posts in the ground to hold up the new sleeping pod. Turns out it’s really hard to keep them upright while pounding them in, so we ended up putting rails across them, just to be extra sure there would be enough contact area when the floor goes on. That’ll have to wait until we’ve got enough people to move it, as it’s about four people’s-worth of heavy.
It’s going to be lovely, though, little hut in the woods, overlooking the bluebells.
Monday morning we had time to move a bunch more rubble into the “parking area” which will actually be a pretty sitting area in the sunshine. It needs leveling (now done) and some weed-proof fabric to stop the dreaded mare’s tail from popping right up through the gravel, and then I’ll need to get on to Fielden Factor’s to deliver my crushed stone. It’s going to be such a beautiful corner with the rose in bloom and the bath tubs as planters.
In the meantime, it’s a bit of a muddy field with a picnic table on it.
Anna did some more cleaning of bee equipment in preparation for the two nuclei of bees we are expecting later this month. There was still quite a lot of honey in the various cells, which attracted every bee for miles around. The sound of all the buzzing was awesome.
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