{"id":7846,"date":"2023-10-22T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2023-10-22T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:00:43","slug":"sunday-22-october-no-turning-back-and-back-not-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-22-october-no-turning-back-and-back-not-turning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 22 October \u2013 No Turning Back and Back not Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been another 2 weeks since I wrote my last blog<\/a> but things have been happening and we have made the first big strides in our large winter project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I wrote the last blog we had David\u2019s Dad staying with us and 1 week left to complete the clearance of the old vegetable patch prior to the expected arrival of the diggers to start the swimming pool build last Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By then, we had completed most of the required tree felling other than one large ash tree which, much like the leylandii, had grown, conveniently, with an obvious lean that meant it could only be felled into the garden and needed to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being an ash tree is wasn\u2019t quite as visually obvious growing on the talus as the large, dark, ugly leylandii, it actually sort of blended into the horse chestnut next to it.\u00a0 As such, it also didn\u2019t make an obvious difference when it was felled and so the before and after pictures look pretty similar!\u00a0 However, it has now gone and was, almost, totally cleared away in time for our Monday deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I say \u2018almost\u2019 totally cleared as I had carefully managed the work required so that it could be achieved on time despite a couple of wetter days and making sure I didn\u2019t use the noisy equipment (chainsaws and shredder) on a Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wetter days assisted as it meant the pool builder was delayed and he told us that he wouldn\u2019t arrive until the Tuesday so giving me an additional day\u2019s prep time.  I left the last Monday for the final shredding and storing some of the wood I had sectioned but it was while bending over doing the shredding that my back gave me a searing pain and, having struggled to finish, I was then rendered practically immobile for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite having spent weeks lugging wood, felling trees and clearing large lumps of concrete and breeze block, it was really frustrating that it was when I was doing something as innocuous as shredding that my back broke.  It does so every few years having done so the first time in 2005, again when bending over to pick up a squash ball, and generally takes a couple of weeks to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timing now was inconvenient to say the least and David had to store the wood and move the shreddings I had generated early on Tuesday morning while our builder arrived and mapped out the site for the digger who arrived on Thursday (Wednesday being another very wet day) and broke ground.\u00a0 Exciting times.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The excavator made good progress over 2 days (sadly no buried treasure discovered!) although wasn\u2019t able to continue on the Saturday (we were a little surprised he had even planned to) as it turned out to be the wettest day of the autumn so far as we were on the periphery of Storm Babet.  Thankfully we weren\u2019t impacted anywhere near as badly as so many others in the UK, but it did seem that the pool might have filled itself rather sooner than we\u2019d anticipated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have made some timelapse videos of the excavations which we have attached below.\u00a0 Ideally we would have liked one video to cover the whole build but, as can\u2019t adjust the timelapse interval on our tablets, we have had to a video for each period of the build.\u00a0 We will share more as things progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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