Sean Regan
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I got done much of what I wanted to do today.
But three hours in the cold was enough. I then had other jobs in the house to do, like the laundry.
I assembled the two hedgehog feeders. I upgraded the first one I built, earlier in the week.
I found I didn't need brackets to secure the tube to the fronts. I'd made the apertures in the front and back bits of plywood tight enough for them to be unnecessary.
I've angled the front of the entrance tubes to give them a bit of protection from rain.
The boxes had locking handles. I had to remove the one from the front to get the tubes in. But I've kept the ones at the back. Those and a brick placed on the top should deter any fox trying to get at the food.
I did a "dummy run," positioning the houses and the feeder to see what they looked like.
On their pavers, they should stay dry.
Then I put them all in the shed, for later in February.
There's a lot of dead bamboo leaves down there. They don't degrade and they're a pain to remove. The bamboo along the back of the fence looks a bit thin, but it always does in the winter. It will thicken up later in the year, as it has done for over thirty years.
I've moved a tall grass to a couple of feet from the front of the feeder. That, the azalea, the hydrangea and the new rhodos, should hide it a bit.
The bottom of the garden is a bit of a mess, there's been so much rain. The less said about the state of the lawn, the better, but it will recover with some help.
I then got into the rose patio, raking out between the flags and vaccing all the debris up. I had a full bag of fine yellow sand and used up half of it brushing it in, with a wide paintbrush. Fortunately, it's dry today. It would have been impossible if the flags were damp.
If it's still dry tomorrow, I'll weed the rockery.
But three hours in the cold was enough. I then had other jobs in the house to do, like the laundry.
I assembled the two hedgehog feeders. I upgraded the first one I built, earlier in the week.
I found I didn't need brackets to secure the tube to the fronts. I'd made the apertures in the front and back bits of plywood tight enough for them to be unnecessary.
I've angled the front of the entrance tubes to give them a bit of protection from rain.
The boxes had locking handles. I had to remove the one from the front to get the tubes in. But I've kept the ones at the back. Those and a brick placed on the top should deter any fox trying to get at the food.
I did a "dummy run," positioning the houses and the feeder to see what they looked like.
On their pavers, they should stay dry.
Then I put them all in the shed, for later in February.
There's a lot of dead bamboo leaves down there. They don't degrade and they're a pain to remove. The bamboo along the back of the fence looks a bit thin, but it always does in the winter. It will thicken up later in the year, as it has done for over thirty years.
I've moved a tall grass to a couple of feet from the front of the feeder. That, the azalea, the hydrangea and the new rhodos, should hide it a bit.
The bottom of the garden is a bit of a mess, there's been so much rain. The less said about the state of the lawn, the better, but it will recover with some help.
I then got into the rose patio, raking out between the flags and vaccing all the debris up. I had a full bag of fine yellow sand and used up half of it brushing it in, with a wide paintbrush. Fortunately, it's dry today. It would have been impossible if the flags were damp.
If it's still dry tomorrow, I'll weed the rockery.
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) I/we thought I'd broken my nose, I looked even worse than normal, so thought I'd just have to tell everyone ''Lord Awful did it!'' 
I worked from 10am- 3:45 pm. Took two breaks. Had my dog tied to the big red oak part of the time, but she complained !! She wanted to go in !! 
Such a housedog !!
Fell off the bar stool
