Woke up at 6am – forgot to turn the flippin’ alarm clock off again!! I don’t think Rob was too pleased….. Ever since buying a radio alarm clock every weekend we go through the same thing. It was fine when we relied upon the humble battery alarm clock.
Finally dragged myself out of bed at about 8:30 to the sounds of digging coming from the garden……
We received a booklet through our door from the council a while ago about recycling and basically ways of reducing your carbon footprint. The council had arranged a special offer price for some composting products, one of these being Green Cone. We have decided to give it a go and our Green Cone arrived about a week ago.
I won’t go into the technical way that the Green Cone works, but basically it requires you to bury part of it in the ground to ensure good drainage. Rob, had decided to start digging the hole to hold the base at 8:30 this morning! And, by 9:30 it was dug. However, good drainage is not something that clay offers and all the earth that was coming out of the hole was it exactly that – clay. We’ve now found that because of this the hole needs to be dug a further 4 inches deep and wide. Needless to say – its not been done today due to blisters. Nevertheless its started, and we also even made it to a garden centre to look at trellis so that it doesn’t end up being a bit of an eyesore in the back garden.
As the weather today has been fantastic, we went for a walk this afternoon, we think it was about 4 miles. Rob wanted to have a look at this Forestry Commission forest close to where we live, and I have to say it was beautiful! So peaceful and quiet, it was just lovely. It was difficult to believe that somewhere like that was right on our doorstep and we will defiantly be going again. Rob thinks it will make a good bike ride and is already trying to work it into a route he can ride sometime.
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