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<\/a><\/p>\nWe have only managed to do one area of lawn, and not the largest one at that.\u00a0 Following my Google research I started cutting the lawn and clearing away the clippings and then scarified at the machine\u2019s shallowest setting.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t wrong it would make a mess!\u00a0 Despite the scarifier having a collection box, it is so ridiculously small I decided to leave it off and clear the debris away manually \u2013 perhaps not the best idea!\u00a0 The scarifying took about 40 minutes, the clearing away a couple of hours and filled our trailer with moss.<\/p>\n
Having raked it up I thought I would scarify it again in another direction but at the same depth.\u00a0 Thinking that, doing it at the same depth, it would generate only a fraction of the waste than the first pass.\u00a0 Nope \u2013 almost exactly the same amount although this time I chose to use the lawn mower as a vacuum to remove the moss but, as there was so much, it meant having to empty the mower bag after every 15 metres or so and filled a second trailer.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t then try and scarify it at a deeper setting this time thinking there wouldn\u2019t be anything left.<\/p>\n Having completed it, it doesn\u2019t look completely bare so hopefully what remains will recover quickly.\u00a0 The weather should help having been a mix of rain and sunshine to encourage it to grow \u2013 although we have also had a lot of wind which has covered the grass with the falling sycamore leaves which probably won\u2019t help.<\/p>\n I hope we will see the full results next spring when I intend to scarify it again (and the other lawn areas) as well as add some more top soil in some of the hollows, and re-seed where the lawn has got most patchy.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t only us who was doing some \u2018industrial\u2019 gardening.\u00a0 Last Thursday the commune, who are planning to re-surface Hent Gorreker in the next couple of weeks, sent a team to cut the edges more brutally than they had ever done.\u00a0 We understand this is because the re-surfacing machine they will be using is quite large and wouldn\u2019t get through with any overhanging branches.\u00a0 You can see from these pictures that the cut was quite brutal on our neighbour’s hedge to the right.\u00a0 We have been cutting our hedge, on the left, since we got here to give it a better shape and fill it out.<\/p>\n The cutting has assisted in some areas especially where it has cut the trees to increase the distance to the power cables so reducing the risk of the branches breaking our power supply.\u00a0 They have also much reduced the height of the hedge next to Granary, which isn\u2019t looked after by its owner, and so increased the amount of light into Granary\u2019s garden.\u00a0 However, they didn\u2019t assist anyone when their cutting efforts included cutting the telephone cable for our half of the village \u2013 hence us being offline last Sunday.<\/p>\n Being in a \u2018zone blanche\u2019, one where there is very limited mobile connectivity, we weren\u2019t able to call our phone provider (SFR) and let them know.\u00a0 We decided to go to Sizun as we knew we could both call SFR and complain to the Marie at the same time.\u00a0 SFR seemed to be fairly efficient this time and told us they would send an engineer on Saturday afternoon (of course no one turned up) and, while the Marie told us they had contacted the phone company, they didn\u2019t seem too motivated to assist any of us get back online.<\/p>\n I was back to visiting a neighbour twice a day to download mails over the weekend and, thankfully, we were reconnected on Monday.<\/p>\n In that week we also had the first piece of work done in preparation for the revamp of Priory next year.\u00a0 At present, Priory\u2019s electricity supply is the same as our own house, Hayloft and Stable.\u00a0 We want to provide it with an independent supply so, in a piece of joined-up work that was probably more coincidence that planned, Enedis (the power company) did the digging required to install a new box behind Granary last week before the road gets resurfaced.\u00a0 They will be back to make the relevant connections next week.<\/p>\n It has gone behind Granary as this is the closest point within our boundary. We will then have to dig the trench and install the cable to Priory as part of the work we will be doing next year.<\/p>\n This week the weather has been very autumnal at times and meant that I have had to focus internally.\u00a0 One day was spent almost entirely online updating the agency websites we use to advertise the cottages.\u00a0 Some are very straightforward to amend, others a complete nightmare, and of course, there isn\u2019t some clever piece of software that allows me to make one set of changes that then gets fed to all of these commercial sites.\u00a0 Having spent a day doing this we received a booking through an agency we have used for a couple of years, without much success, for a weekend in November.\u00a0 Maybe a coincidence or perhaps I will need to spend more time in these sites \u2013 joy!<\/p>\n I had another constructive day cleaning out our fish tank.\u00a0 When we lived in London, I had a fish tank built for a specific position in our kitchen.\u00a0 As it was made to measure, and quite large, it wasn\u2019t very cheap.\u00a0 I did make an effort to sell it before we came to France but, as we didn\u2019t want to give it away we weren\u2019t successful so it came with us and has stood in our lounge ever since \u2013 but not cleaned.<\/p>\n Regrettably it doesn\u2019t, and won\u2019t, match the d\u00e9cor in Kergudon so, I have reluctantly agreed to try and sell it again.\u00a0 To advertise it I have had to clean it out and it looks great again.\u00a0 Hopefully we will be able to sell it but at least we have something more attractive to look at in the meantime.\u00a0 If you know anyone who would like a 500 litre fish tank do let us know \u2026<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n