Bluehook's Diary

I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.


I gave Lisa a ring in the morning to see if/when she was coming over to play with Gemma - our rotivator, and she said she'd be over about half past midday which gave me a bit of time to play with. I went into town and got some strong light bulbs for the barn, some cider vinegar and made another visit to the organics for salad and vegetable stuff. Lisa got here just after I'd finished making the salad for lunch and was ploughing through a pile of post. She'd brought some stuffed mushrooms over as well and we couldn't wait and went straight into a big lunch feast.
Then we went down the garden so that Lisa could meet Henry and Wilbur, the pigs and she was just as enchanted with them as everyone seems to be. I wonder if all pigs are so delightful. Well, by the time we'd done that and gone up to see the horses as well and looked at the herb seeds in the greenhouse it was time for Lisa to pick up Jake from school and I went down to Llangybi for the ride. Then we managed to get into the barn and I took some paint stripper and a drill with a wire brush attached to the back of the rotivator which was really needing a proper strip down while Lisa primed the parts at the front that had already been sufficiently cleaned up. We did well despite the distractions, Jake really really needed me to show him how to fill up the pump action water cannon, (he's six and he's a very sweet little chappie but totally off the planet) - so then I had to explain why it was fine for him to play with it but what the consequences would be if he sprayed me. Also Duncan from Downhome stoves turned up to plaster over the big holes in the wall where the raeburn had been fitted, which I wouldn't have know about except that Hansi had come home from school and found him sitting in the drive. Tractor Matt turned up as we were having a break and then Clare arrived to take Nelly out for a walk - or a drag, or whatever. After a cup of tea I took Lisa and Matt up the field to see the tractor and to see what he though of it and it seems like it might well be restorable to functional but that model is really only used now as a hobby tractor, a yard tractor or to do up to spanking new and sell to rich people in London to have in the gardens. Lisa really needs a tractor but it seems like she' d be better off with a 4 wheel drive one.
We did manage a bit more stripping and painting after that but soon it was time for dinner. Lisa went home and everyone else went out to a nearby rave party type of thing - so nearby you could hear it actually and I think I just stayed in and watched tv.


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