{"id":1377,"date":"2017-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-26th-march-spring-forward\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:54:58","slug":"sunday-26th-march-spring-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-26th-march-spring-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 26th March – Spring Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

A relatively short blog this week and with almost no phots I\u2019m afraid.\u00a0 Not because we haven\u2019t been doing anything \u2013 we have \u2013 but because this has been a bitty sort of week when we haven\u2019t really been able to focus on a single thing.<\/p>\n

The weather has been a bit mixed and our builder couldn\u2019t come all week, which meant that we have had to be in and out doing work on Grange as well as more wet weather choices none of which make for interesting photos.<\/p>\n

We did manage to make some progress on Grange and have made the decision to switch our focus to the roof on the rear side and we constructed more wooden scaffolding to allow us access.\u00a0 It was a little slower than the front as the ground is considerably softer with less room to manoeuvre between the building and the wall to the rear.<\/p>\n

\"Wooden<\/a><\/p>\n

Having taken the best part of a day to build the scaffolding we then had one day when we were able to start felting and nailing volige to the roof.\u00a0 Another day should get it complete and in a position to start slating that side.<\/p>\n

\"End<\/a><\/p>\n

When we weren\u2019t able to work on Grange we focussed, when the weather allowed, on garden projects including progressing the new stone wall to the rear entrance.\u00a0 This included more chainsaw work as we reduced the height of 2 large old buxus-type trees which we want to train into more of a hedge.\u00a0 The reason I want to finish the wall (as much as just to get it complete) is that I took a large number of lonicera cuttings to make a hedge on top of the wall and, thankfully the vast majority have rooted successfully but they will suffer if I don\u2019t get them in the ground soon.<\/p>\n

I have managed to progress the wall quite a lot and, again, another day should see it completed and ready to plant.\u00a0 I will share photos of that hopefully next week.<\/p>\n

I did manage to plant out some of the privet cuttings that I had taken but again have a lot more to do and, when it was wet, I prepared some wood which I will make 2 more gates from in the coming weeks \u2013 if I can find the right bolts I need.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was by far the best weather of the week so we were able to spend the whole day in the garden and while David was getting back on top of the weeds in the rear \u2018champignon\u2019 beds I repaired the temporary wire fence around them which we have put up to keep our, and guests\u2019, dogs off the beds as the mini buxus hedges grow.\u00a0 When I put it up last year, in an effort to recycle (and save money), I used holly branches as the posts as I had just cut a large holly tree down.\u00a0 However, turns out that holly drys out very quickly and either rots or snaps very easily so after storm Zeus much of the fencing had collapse.\u00a0 They both look considerably better now especially as the lawn is starting to look great again having allowed it to get a little too long \u2013 2 cuts last week is bringing it back to its former glory.<\/p>\n

Next week we will be able to progress many more of our garden projects as the forecast is good and, sadly, our builder has put his back out so won\u2019t be with us for a while.\u00a0 We wish him a speedy recovery \u2013 as we really need to get Grange finished!!\u00a0 It will allow me to post a few more pictures and start another project we really want to do to improve the front \u2013 expand and rebuild the \u2018jungle bed\u2019 at the front of Kergudon so we can plant our more interesting and exotic plants.\u00a0 More walling required but only very small so shouldn\u2019t take too long!<\/p>\n

On the up side, with the clocks going forward last night it now stays light until well past 8 so should be able to have some long days \u2026<\/p>\n

\u00c0 bient\u00f4t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A relatively short blog this week and with almost no phots I\u2019m afraid.\u00a0 Not because we haven\u2019t been doing anything \u2013 we have \u2013 but because this has been a bitty sort of week when we haven\u2019t really been able to focus on a single thing. The weather has been a bit mixed and our…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}