{"id":3628,"date":"2020-05-14T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:15:36","slug":"productive-and-also-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"Productive! And Also Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing about being more productive but not used to blogging frequently is that I am going to have to cram a lot into each entry…<\/p>\n

Get a cup of tea…<\/p>\n

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May day happened. We went up to Great Rock, which turned out to be a really nice place to watch the sun not rise, as happens most may day mornings. I mean, presumably it rose, we just couldn’t actually see it at the time for all the clouds. Thanks, England. Still, it was a nice experience.<\/p>\n

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I spent another few sessions working on the mosaic. By gawd this shit takes a long time.<\/p>\n

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But it’s no all that miserable a job to be doing, and it does get marginally easier as I get better at the planning and not backing myself into awkward corners as I work.<\/p>\n

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I finally reached the milestone of ONE panel done. Well, not grouted, but complete.<\/p>\n

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I’m very pleased with it. Hopefully I will not die before I complete another panel.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Ben is absolutely cracking on with the kitchen, which is *very* exciting.<\/p>\n

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The carcasses are being built out of some stuff we had lying around and then faced with the interior wall cladding I rescued from the sauna\/site office\/bunk house before I burned it.<\/p>\n

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Ben is an absolute master of taking whatever we’ve got lying around and making it look amazing.<\/p>\n

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Julian has been on a bit of a fitness kick and has taken to climbing the rope swing.<\/p>\n

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The garden slope is mostly being extremely successful. It’s a pain we have to wait years for it to fill out properly, but then, it is giving us the very best display it can at its current size.<\/p>\n

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I’m hoping these Azalea\/Rhododendrons are going to get big and impressive. To be honest, their huge, showy blossoms look a bit ridiculous on a plant less than a foot across.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow we are going up to Bingley to a guy who is going to help us mill this baby into planks which we will then put in the solar kiln for a couple of weeks to dry out and then it will become a fabulously beautiful worktop!<\/p>\n

The rest of this post is about our walk up to Stoodley Pike. It’s kind of embarrassing that we haven’t ever done it before. I mean, we’ve done it by driving over to the pub across the valley and walking from there, but never from our house.<\/p>\n

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You can see the pike in the distance in the above photo, just a tiny point on the horizon, which is kind of my phone’s camera being a drama queen. It’s not as far as it looks.<\/p>\n

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We chose to go along the valley floor for the first bit, following the canal.<\/p>\n

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And then cutting up through a bluebell-strewn valley with a little stream running down it.<\/p>\n

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There really is some beauty in these parts. I’m pleased to be finally taking the time to explore it more fully.<\/p>\n

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Emerging from the shady valley we climbed the last bit of road, our goal very much in sight.<\/p>\n

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The last little bit is a challenge for the likes of me, very steep and unrelenting.<\/p>\n

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But we made it, and really, it wasn’t that bad in the end.<\/p>\n

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The view is certainly a prize worth the trouble.<\/p>\n

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And so was the picnic we brought, including a G&T each. We know how to do this rambling thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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