A good day which started with a lie-in and then Country Tracks on telly with my breakfast branflakes and muesli. I spent some time researching my evening tomorrow, an RSA meeting in Newcastle. This doesn't start til 5.30, which means I will be able to attend Stella Rawson's funeral at 11am at Holy Trinity Church in Heworth, on the corner of Melrosegate and East Parade.
After lunch I serviced my youngest son's bike, as it needed oiling and a puncture repaired. I also cut the front privet hedge, as we've used up all the logs which are usually stacked next to it so it's accessible, so 20 minutes with the shears and it was looking a bit less shaggy. The very cold weather has taken off many of the leaves, so I'm looking forward to it growing again as it looks dreadful.
I visited Richard down at Country Fresh and discussed whether I could get a lift to London for the Falling Spikes gig at the beginning of February, and Rich thinks I could get a lift back but not down there, as a couple of people are going down with them but not coming back. This probably makes it unlikely that I'll go. But there are more local gigs planned.
I did a bit of chainsawing, some pallets, a few recently acquired logs, but not much as Gill came out and told me I was being loud and some time ago I'd agreed with a religious neighbour down the road that I wouldn't split logs on a Sunday. Well I wasn't splitting logs, but the chainsaw on the pallet was fairly loud.
Later I went on a foraging expedition and came back with 4 pallets and a few logs.
When the children were asleep we filled in the forms for the Steiner School, as they need to know our income and expenditure, to work out how much the donation is that we should give. This was complicated but I think we got most of the information together. Now we need to photocopy loads of it to present to them. I don't like paperwork.
After lunch I serviced my youngest son's bike, as it needed oiling and a puncture repaired. I also cut the front privet hedge, as we've used up all the logs which are usually stacked next to it so it's accessible, so 20 minutes with the shears and it was looking a bit less shaggy. The very cold weather has taken off many of the leaves, so I'm looking forward to it growing again as it looks dreadful.
I visited Richard down at Country Fresh and discussed whether I could get a lift to London for the Falling Spikes gig at the beginning of February, and Rich thinks I could get a lift back but not down there, as a couple of people are going down with them but not coming back. This probably makes it unlikely that I'll go. But there are more local gigs planned.
I did a bit of chainsawing, some pallets, a few recently acquired logs, but not much as Gill came out and told me I was being loud and some time ago I'd agreed with a religious neighbour down the road that I wouldn't split logs on a Sunday. Well I wasn't splitting logs, but the chainsaw on the pallet was fairly loud.
Later I went on a foraging expedition and came back with 4 pallets and a few logs.
When the children were asleep we filled in the forms for the Steiner School, as they need to know our income and expenditure, to work out how much the donation is that we should give. This was complicated but I think we got most of the information together. Now we need to photocopy loads of it to present to them. I don't like paperwork.
