I've been off work for a week and managed to hit some reasonably good weather. In fact I cut the grass on the 25th and burnt the back of my neck. Still, I'm not complaining (see my previous post about how disappointing summers are nowadays - well, someone was listening).
We are progressing with the renovation of the house and I did something really silly last week and ordered the new home cinema seating (pic attached). Well you are only a selfish childless couple once in your life so I thought what the heck. Thank God we've got 14 weeks to pay for them!
We've also had some new babies (a second "batch" [I don't think that's the right word] of moorhen chicks which are really cute and cool). We have two natural ponds separated by a little waterfall and have discovered that a fiendish cat from one of the barns over the hill is coming down and waiting near the connecting stone edge for a little baby chick to come innocently swimming by. Well, when we hear lots of panic-stricken chirping we know that the youngsters have sensed something you should see me belting out of the house and down to the ponds to repel borders. Imagine pyjamas, wellies and slightly more scary than scary out of bed hair and you've probably got the picture! Still, it does the job - in fact I've just realised that I have in effect become a cat scarer - I could be replaced by a string of CDs on a wire at any moment.
As for the house, we are just weeks away from trying out the underfloor heating and hoping that everything is not going to blow up or leak all over the place. Hopefully a successful non-Aqualung-based post will follow that.
