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.

Today was one of those non-stop busy busy days. I started off in the garden with a piece of baling twine and a coat hanger. This was to measure out a 12 foot length with a peg at each end to enable me to calculate the number of fence rails I need to re-fence the front of the field and the orchard. Once I had my twine and wire tool made I set about measuring along the length otf the existing fence then went indoors (it was raining by then) to draw lots of little diagrams of the fences and the lunging ring we are (eventually) going to build and therby arrived at a number of rails and a number of posts. Probably I could have just made a phone call but I decided to go to Pumpsaint and order it myself, I just prefer doing business that way. The drive to Pumpsaint is over the top of the world, one of my favourite little drives, it takes about half an hour and only the last half mile or so is by main road. On the way over I met David, like I always do when I am wondering where he has got to and why he isn't over here doing things with the hay. I'm sure he will get here eventually. I got to the timber yard, had a look at the stuff I wanted to buy and then ordered it along with a sufficient quantity of galvanised nails to fix it up. Remarkably they said they could maybe deliver it tonight, I was expecting to have to wait up to a week.

I hadn't long got back and just finished a sandwich when Hanna arrived. She has given me some more work to do over the next few days and we made a few ammendments to her brochure and when it came to the German translation I got out of the way and let her do the typing. Clare arrived in the middle of that and once Hanna was finished we went out to give the horses a grooming and pick their feet. The farrier is coming (probably...well, maybe, I do hope so) tomorrow and I don't know how Princess is going to behave herself. She will just about tolerate having her front legs picked up but not so good with the back ones.

After they had both left I was about to start looking at the extremely boring job I had waiting (ugently I thought) for WIT when the lorry from the timber yard appeared. I put my boots back on and went out to help unload it. I looked across at one point and realised that while I was unloading three posts at a time the man from the yard was unloading two and the boy he had brought to help was doing one. I stopped breaking my back after that and just did two at a time. The posts weren't too bad and there was only 75 of them but the rails were a lot heavier and there was 132 of them, luckily Lorna came along in the middle of that and helped out.

After that was over I made a start on the WIT job before dinner and the finished it off afterwards. It was 11.30pm by the time I finished it and then I had to go and have a bath before I could face sitting down to type this. Maybe it was all that hacking and slashing with the sickle yesterday or maybe it was hefting all that wood around or maybe it was all the sitting at the computer typing with appauling posture or maybe the combination but my back and shoulders are not feeling at all happy.

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