{"id":2948,"date":"2019-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-07-july-can-you-dig-it\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:45","slug":"sunday-07-july-can-you-dig-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-07-july-can-you-dig-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 07 July – Can you dig it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week<\/a>, I had started re-staining the exterior of the windows in Granary while the weather was warm (hot) and dry.\u00a0 I hoped that I would be able to complete this job if the weather remained favourable \u2013 and it has.<\/p>\n

In fact, we are starting to get a little concerned about this continued heat and lack of rain.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember the last time we had any beneficial rain and the forecast has no precipitation for the next 10 days.\u00a0 The lawn is already starting to brown and some of the shrubs will start to find it difficult.\u00a0 We are even concerned about being able to water the hanging baskets when all of our water butts (3400 litres in total) run dry!<\/p>\n

The advantage is that I did manage to complete the staining of Granary windows and they look so much better for it.\u00a0 Hopefully they are now protected and will good for the next 5 years \u2013 or at least that is what it says on the tin!<\/p>\n

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Last week I also said that I hoped to start some of the groundwork in the old chicken run and that has been my principal task for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

Knowing that over the next few years we had quite a lot of earth moving to be done, a year or so ago we decided that, in partnership \u00a0with a friend, we would invest in our own mini-digger.\u00a0 This was based on the, exorbitant, cost of renting one for any period of time here and the second-hand prices of diggers.\u00a0 As such, our friend, who is rather more mechanically minded that either of us, agreed to source a digger in the UK.\u00a0 He found one \u2018competitively priced\u2019 in Kent and, last December, drove it back to his home in one of our neighbouring villages.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday he delivered it to us for me to start the work.\u00a0 Sadly, I don\u2019t have any photographs that show clearly what the site looked like before I started but, since we have lived here, we have been using the area as a sort of dumping ground.\u00a0 This hasn\u2019t been restricted to garden waste for burning but also the soil I generated when digging the foundations for Grange which I deposited alongside the boundary to Hent Gorreker.<\/p>\n