{"id":6159,"date":"2021-04-18T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:45:23","slug":"sunday-18-april-what-3-ridiculous-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-18-april-what-3-ridiculous-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 18 April \u2013 What 3 Ridiculous Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for not posting a blog last week.\u00a0 While we had done a number of things none of them were really photogenic, so we didn\u2019t take any pictures, and I thought I would combine all activities of the last 2 weeks in today\u2019s, slightly longer, blog.\u00a0 Hope you\u2019ll stick with it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my previous major task completed, rebuilding the stone wall<\/a> at the front of the orchard which borders Hent Gorreker, I was able to return to the ongoing major task \u2013 the garage.\u00a0 It does remain my focus as, when done, will allow us to tidy up the area between it and the petanque pitch.\u00a0 This includes what was a 13-tonne pile of gravel we had delivered in 2018 for various jobs which has prevented us driving from the front to the back gate ever since.\u00a0 The area has always had to be my service yard with all the projects we have on and, as such, we have always been conscious it is not the most attractive with random piles of material which we want to remove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have mentioned that we want to concrete the southern end garage bay, having concreted the north during the May confinement last year<\/a>, which meant that I needed to clear and prepare it.\u00a0 Having been relatively full in January, I needed to move the things into another bay which meant first clearing those!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garage bay had become a bit of a dumping ground!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I had used one of the central bays to store lots of wood in an effort to keep it relatively dry, so 2 days last week was spent cutting and splitting this (one of the not very photogenic tasks) and moving it to the serre.  When I had enough space everything from one bay went into the other with another handy d\u00e9chetterie trip to ditch some of the larger unwanted items (finally including Priory\u2019s old po\u00eale which had been sat outside Dairy since we removed it in 2016!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time this end garage bay had been empty (July 2018) we hadn\u2019t planned to concrete it (probably should have done) so had added a layer of spare gravel that we didn\u2019t need for the p\u00e9tanque pitch. This too needed to be removed and we have (now) added to the boule pitch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petanque pitch with garage gravel added – and lovely hedges!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We haven\u2019t created a new game of crazy p\u00e9tanque, I just took this photo before levelling out the piles, but also because one of the other tasks I did last week was to give the p\u00e9tanque hedge a haircut and it looks great.\u00a0 I cut a number of other hedges too including the Priory \u2018champignons\u2019 which also look good but while now wide enough and joined up, aren\u2019t yet at the height we ultimately want them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Champignon beds trimmed hedges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Under the gravel I had put plastic sheeting to reduce the moisture coming into the bay which will eventually (this year) have garage doors.\u00a0 Now that we want to concrete, I then needed to lower the level of earth in the bay to give us a base sufficiently think that it won\u2019t crack with a car parked on it.\u00a0 This has generated another pile of earth in the service area \u2013 albeit, I hope, temporarily as this will eventually be used to raise the level of the centre bays.\u00a0 You can see it is a bit of a juggling act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n