November! Flocks of fieldfares, winter visitors from Scandinavia, circulate, seemingly unsettled and unsure where to be or what to be doing. Some of the flocks are more than two hundred birds, others much smaller. They sit in the tops of trees, don’t seem to be busy feeding yet on the bountiful rowan or holly berries,Continue reading “What next? See last paragraph?”
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Piddling pipe problem
Weds: They took away the second mouldy sofa, then I mixed mortar and made the final seals on the drainage inspection chambers and shifted some more barrows of aggregate to fill up a low spot where a puddle fills between house and workshop. Before lunch, and clutching the mysteriously problematic plumbing joint, I walked downContinue reading “Piddling pipe problem”
A sustainable house for unsustainable times... 