{"id":6642,"date":"2022-02-06T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T13:42:37","slug":"sunday-06-february-watt-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-06-february-watt-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 06 February – Watt to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s blog is similar in content to last<\/a> in that our electrician has spent most of the week pressing on with the Granary re-wiring, and I have been working on various other projects as I can\u2019t get into the g\u00eete to start redecorating.\u00a0 It is also similar in that the photos aren\u2019t wildly inspiring(!) and I haven\u2019t been any good at taking \u2018before\u2019 pictures but have some \u2018after\u2019 ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal (the electrician) does seem to be making good progress although unfortunately, the carpenter we have asked to do some restorative woodwork has been unwell so has been unable to start.\u00a0 I knew that we would reach a point when Pascal gets as far as he can before needing me to construct a couple of plasterboard walls but, with the carpenter a little delayed, he may get to a break point sooner than we\u2019d hoped.\u00a0 All good project management challenges!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, I won\u2019t share pictures as all they\u2019d be is an empty g\u00eete with lots of cable laying about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, the week has been spent doing lots of little things that are making progress in various areas but no big wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, the weather continues, for the most part, to allow me to work outside and progress some garden tasks.  One of these was the annual hack through the weed and undergrowth opposite our main entrance on Hent Gorreker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived, the bank opposite was massively overgrown, the farmer who owned it not having done any sort of cutting or clearing for years.  The problem this caused us is that, because it is to the south of us, it meant that for much of the day the garden, and especially Stable, were in shade and gloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017 we got permission from the farmer to look after the small strip of land and it took me days to hack things back<\/a> and cut the self-set sycamores and hazel trees back to give us a lot more light.\u00a0 In 2020 we had the idea to plant some rhododendrons on the bank to both make it more attractive but also, as they grew larger, to suppress the weeds and therefore minimise the amount of clearing I had to do each spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend was kind enough to gift us about 12 young rhododendron plants that had self-set in their garden which Dave planted in the cleared bank.\u00a0 During the year they got smothered by the bramble, bracken and hazel that regrew, which, being woodland plants that appreciate the shade, wasn\u2019t a problem.\u00a0 However, the very dry spring and summer that year was an issue and, although we watered frequently, we feared we would lose most of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, when I cleared last spring, we found most had made it through and again, this week, I located 10 plants still growing, albeit they were still very small (a bit too small to make out in these pictures).\u00a0 Hopefully they have spent their time putting down good root growth so they can now roar away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n