… since you’ve seen this little beast outside and working?
Late 2012 I reckon.
But today, with the outside temperature reaching 29.2°C, a beautiful clear blue sky with aslight breeze, water in the 12-volt home-made immersion heater at 58.5°C that can only mean one thing.
So while the washing was doing, I was sitting outside with my butties, a soft drink and a good book for lunch. And it really was nice too.
Now I know that I have said this before … "and you’ll say it again" – ed …, the mere handful of Euros that I paid for this tabletop washing machine at a brocante all those years ago has been a good investment.
So after an early start, first job was to do something that I don’t like doing, namely to cover a lot of the ground around here in weedkiller. I hate using the stuff and feel that it has no part to play in a rural garden, but I’m overrun with nettles and brambles and have no time to deal with them.
Back up on the scaffolding afterwards to finish off the guttering (except for the glueing together of course) and now we have a downpipe onto the roof of the sownhill lean-to.
Don’t be too worried about the fact that the downpipe isn’t vertical. I had to drill into the quarried stone blocks rather than into the fieldstone, and in any case I want the rain to spread right across the roof rather than drop down on one place.
Final job was to carry on with the new compost bin. Here’s the first of the layers, and in total I’ve made three altogether. That gives me a working height of about 50cms all told, and I can add extra layers as the heap expands.
Tomorrow i’m going to have to dismantle one of the bins from many years ago and site this bin in the place of the dismantled one. It’s too big to go where I wanted it to be;
Each of the sides is only 75cms, and that’s a lot less than the 133cms that I used to make the others. Height rather than width is what is needed with a good compost heap and my others didn’t go high enough to to any real good.
Once I’ve caught up with all of this, I can turn my attention to clearing out the land where I’m going to put the sunken water tank. I had a look around there this morning too and discovered my trenching spade that I have left outside for I don’t know how many years. I’d completely forgotten about that.
