Saturday xx

When we got back off holiday Mark phoned "The Woodman" to ask about another load of wood for Fred.  We had approx half of the wood left from last year in the wood store at the bottom of the garden.  That would only last us for a few months though.  We thought while the weather was still good it made more sense to order more now instead of over the winter period.

The Woodman initially said Wednesday at 6.00pm for delivery but that is when Anais and Roman have swimming lessons so we said no.  We asked for 6.00pm Thursday or Friday instead but he couldn't do, next available date was 9.00am this morning.

Here was the wood when it was delivered today, a lorry load - equivalent to approx 3 tonne bags.

Lovely and clean.

Roman testing it - it was between 9 and 17% moisture content so we can burn it straight away.

We have a production line going now!  Anais and Roman fill the recycling boxes and supermarket bags for life, Mark carries them through the house and I unpack them in the back garden.  Here is Roman "helping" (building himself a rocket!).

In all it took us four hours including stopping for lunch.  Probably a good thing we didn't have the delivery for 6.00pm on a week night as we would not have been finished until nearly 10.00pm!

We. Now. Have. LOTS. Of. Wood!

Mark used some of the wood we had leftover from last year to chop up for kindling (as it was super dry and easy to chop).

After a few hours rest we took a LOT of grass cuttings to the tip.  As the council no longer collects green waste we had a lot of bags on the patio waiting to go to the tip.

We all picked our own tea and sweets from the supermarket as a "well done!".  We had curry, Anais had chicken chow mein and Roman had a mac cheese.  We ate tea and watched the new Cinderella film which was very good.