Wind

The end of the festive season was marked by high winds. Gale and storm force winds raged though the night and unfortunately continued when folk were due to drive back home.

So far, every time we have travelled between Scotland and Wales the weather has done its best to make it difficult with either winds or snow and ice. Hopefully, as winter ends, we might start to have easier journeys both for ourselves and our visitors.

We seemed to be lucky and avoided any significant damage.The hen house did become al fresco accomodation for a period but it has been repaired in advance of our poultry coming home this week.

A few trees did come down in the woods and in the garden. However, this latter damage did help expand our growing wood store. The new saw is still working well and we will hopefully have a good supply of seasoned wood in a few years time. There seems to be quite a bit of arguament about covering wood to be seasoned I had decided that for the first cord I will try with stacking indoors and that following this we could try with an outdoor site. However, after reading this page I am going to have to move my nascent pile

The rain has largely precluded any further work in the vegetable garden but it is still early days. Fortuitously, in the delay I have uncovered two large compost heaps which are ready to be dug in