Wednesday 19th December 12

A good day as I spent quite a bit of it outside, filling the Compostumbler, the leafmould pile, stacking logs, and dealing with the big old willow tree which had shed a large lump of rotten wood, and when I climbed up to see where it had come from, I found another big loose piece which easily came away, so i brought that down the ladder and cut it up with the bow saw and stacked it in the dry.... and to help the tree I'll pollard it this year.  It was pollarded about 4 years ago and it's got big and bushy again, and I think another topping would give it a new vigour. It will also give me a big pile of home-grown logs!

At 5pm I got ready to go to the Seahorse to have a meeting about Towards a Sustainable York 2013, and we agreed wording for the leaflet table application form, and a few other bits and bobs.

Late into the evening I created a facebook 'event' page, which Ivana will make a 'bit.ly' address for, and maybe a QR code for people to scan in.

So,a good day. 

Wednesday 5th December 12

Tried to do lots today but failed, although did do some stacking and compost loading, the usual rounds of washing up etc, and went down to town to sort out our money situation, since Gill discovered we had -£14 in the bank, whoops, and I collected my bike from Cycle Heaven which has £120 worth of new back block, gear shift, chain and front drive wheel, all of which had worn down and were getting jumpy.

At 4.30 I met John Henderson in the pub to talk about a website he's setting up and then at 5.30, met up with Edward, Ivana, Spin and Alastair to talk about Towards a Sustainable York 2013. 

Thursday 29th November 12

A very hard-working day, physically, and latterly, mentally.

So, up early as Ian said he'd pick me up at 9.30 to go to Heslington to do the oak tree.  We found the gate was open but the lane so churned up that his pick-up couldn't easily get along it, so we went round to Halifax College and got in through there.  We did three loads.  The first one we took back to his house towards Clifton Moor, the second to ours, where I made a brief lunch, and the third, he took back to his but dropped me off at home.

I enjoyed sharpening his chainsaw teeth, lugging big chunks around, and helping him.  I also like his stories and anecdotes. He's really good to work with.

We finished about 3pm and I did a bit of sawing and moving stuff around in the front for an hour, before going to the Seahorse for 5pm for a meeting with Edward and Peter, first (except Peter was late), and then a whole bunch of other people turned up for 5.30, and I chaired and took notes, and we moved forward on the 'Towards a Sustainable York 2013' event.

This meeting finished soon after 7pm, with an agreement to meet next week and finalise things.