Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
A day of sunshine, showers and a brisk breeze here chez Casa Reynard.
Slept well. Downstairs, fed the cat, made myself a
and took it upstairs to do some writing. I seem to be continuously writing myself into a corner with this chapter. This is getting a bit annoying. Especially since this deals with background stuff that needs to be covered, but without turning it into an infodump.
Chores done. Also some admin. I now know who I need to poke at e-on to get my meter / hot water sorted without dangling ad infinitum on the phone. Did all the prep for supper and loaded the crock pot.
At this time of year it's easier to defer luncheon if there is garden work to be done. So cleaned the chainsaw again and vacuumed out a load of sawdust. Took it out to do some cutting. A pain to start, and managed to cut a wheelbarrow's worth of logs before it cut out on me. Annoyingly, it needs proprietary tools to strip down and service - which I don't have. You *think* that an allen key would work, but it's just the wrong shape to "bite".
An executive decision has been made to book it in at the local agricultural place (where I originally bought it from) for a full service. It's the one power tool I can't be without, and needs to work reliably. And by the time I fork out for tools and parts, I may as well get it done professionally.
Good job I have a large surplus of logs to feed the heating in the mean time. Plus the tree I'm currently working on really needs to be disentangled from ivy and elder before I can carry on anyways. So always plenty of stuff to do.
I've had a nice quiet evening.
Supper was a fabby homemade lamb, aubergine & chickpea madras with basmati rice.
Now watching "My Cat From Hell"
Slept well. Downstairs, fed the cat, made myself a
and took it upstairs to do some writing. I seem to be continuously writing myself into a corner with this chapter. This is getting a bit annoying. Especially since this deals with background stuff that needs to be covered, but without turning it into an infodump.Chores done. Also some admin. I now know who I need to poke at e-on to get my meter / hot water sorted without dangling ad infinitum on the phone. Did all the prep for supper and loaded the crock pot.
At this time of year it's easier to defer luncheon if there is garden work to be done. So cleaned the chainsaw again and vacuumed out a load of sawdust. Took it out to do some cutting. A pain to start, and managed to cut a wheelbarrow's worth of logs before it cut out on me. Annoyingly, it needs proprietary tools to strip down and service - which I don't have. You *think* that an allen key would work, but it's just the wrong shape to "bite".
An executive decision has been made to book it in at the local agricultural place (where I originally bought it from) for a full service. It's the one power tool I can't be without, and needs to work reliably. And by the time I fork out for tools and parts, I may as well get it done professionally.
Good job I have a large surplus of logs to feed the heating in the mean time. Plus the tree I'm currently working on really needs to be disentangled from ivy and elder before I can carry on anyways. So always plenty of stuff to do.
I've had a nice quiet evening.
Supper was a fabby homemade lamb, aubergine & chickpea madras with basmati rice.
Now watching "My Cat From Hell"
