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Two weeks. Unless I’ve been travelling, I think that’s about the longest it’s ever been since blog posts on here.
It’s been a frantic fortnight, though, with busy days at work, and every evening taken up either with writing or sorting out the house.
Things are moving along nicely there now. The bathroom is finished (bar the floor), the kitchen is almost done, and the out-house is full of cabinets for the second kitchen, which still need fitting. After that, the kitchen and bathroom floors need doing and the loft needs boarding, and then it’s pretty much done.
It’s taken six months, and there are still some little extras that need doing, like installing water buts, moving a fence and building a shed, but there all outdoorsy and can wait.
The garden is going great guns, and so far we’ve had about £55 of veg from it. The broccoli is far greener and more vivid than anything you see in the shops - even when you’ve cooked it, which is good, as it’s also quite a haven for caterpillars, and often you don’t see them until you’ve already cooked it, got it on your plate and speared it with a fork, no matter how carefully you clean them.
But we’re still having fun. Yesterday we headed out to Highwood to see the deer, and although we didn’t catch a large deer like the first time I went and found myself surrounded by 40 or more, we did manage to get pictures of a monther and father pair with a youngster leaping through the crops.
And today we’re heading off to Dunsfold for Wings and Wheels, which will no doubt be another photo opp. Tomorrow - who knows. We’re planning on Lowestoft and may end up at the power boat racing, so I can see this weekend being a good one for stretching the camera’s legs.
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