Wip

No, the title of the post isn’t what myself and Neil get up to behind closed doors, its ‘work in progress’. As you will see from the photos below the fence still isn’t finished! I’m sure the Berlin wall was quicker to put up, but what with some rubbish weather and a weekend in Jersey for me (while Neil did some tiling at Mum’s) we haven’t had many opportunities to get much done.

So this morning we started with a new burst of energy. Neil broke pallets into pieces whilst I nailed them into place. We make quite a production line! We are hoping to have enough pallets for the whole fence, so maybe next weekend it will finally be finished-phew!

Slight confession here-we had some help for a little while today. Bob, the resident allotment expert from plot number 117 who is always very generous with his time (and his produce!), offered some pearls of wisdom on the best way to break the pallets up without splitting the pieces. He lent us his work bench then he oiled our saw and even did some sawing for us. We took some height off the fence posts so they are more even and boy was it hard work, particularly as they are above shoulder height for me so is quite difficult to get the saw going smoothly. So Bob stepped in and did about three for me! Legend.

So what’s the next challenge I hear you ask? Well, does anyone have instructions to our giant greenhouse jigsaw…

PS. I have also decided to document Neil’s injuries. There have been quite a few (the blisters from hammering the posts in, the cut from moving the greenhouse glass) but so far he has spared you having to look at them. So here is today’s injury, inflicted by the saw-ouch!