Tuesday 18th June 13

I got up early, so I could deliver food to The Stables and distribute WNBR flyers.  So I had breakfast and soon got busy on the computer.  I had to sign in to facebook and found a warning... the picture I'd used for the YWNBR event page had been deemed to be in breach of facebook standards, as if you look REALLY closely, you can see a cyclist's penis. So, I was on a 24 hour ban, unable to post anything.

I  took the food which is being taken onto Botton, and as soon as I'd delivered that, cycled up to the station as my gears were playing up, and Ash placed his magic hands on them and I think they work perfectly again.  I flyered bikes at the Station, Blake St, Petergate, Parliament St and Piccadilly before coming home.

I was able to do other things on the computer other than facebook, and I did quite a bit of work, learning how to do DropBox, and transferring the sustyork2013 email contacts into a document and then into a shared DropBox folder, and also completing the minutes from last night's meeting and wrote a brief update to send out to the YiT contacts.

I did manage to get into the garden later in the afternoon, and did a fair amount of shredding and pruning, cutting down some ivy to allow more light into the top garden.

So, a productive day.

Tuesday 4th June 13

Another busy day, sorting lots of stuff in the front garden so we can put in a big planter made from a pallet with sides.  Gill and I modified this by putting on two half pallets on the front and back to clad it, using No Nails glue and... nails!

I chainsawed up and split some remaining logs including some big 'rounds' which have been sitting there for quite a while. I stacked them in the back garden behind the willow tree.  I also weeded ground elder from the raspberry bed and did a little bit of compost management.

As it was very hot outside, I did some stuff inside, including an hour of preparing toilet roll tubes by cutting one end with a series of 1cm cuts and folding them in to make cardboard pots, and planting them up with pea beans.  I soaked a load a few days ago and have had a surprising germination rate.  I'll be able to take some to the seedling swap, and give a few to my parents and Cookie. 

Mid afternoon there was a delivery of a box of York World Naked Bike Ride 2013 leaflets which was exciting as I hadn't seen them... they were a gift from Peter Birkett, who's also paying for the banner to be made. This means that tomorrow I'll have to do a load of deliveries.....