Back to work

Although many people in the UK are still on holiday, the Christmas and New Year break is over here in France and it’s time for everyone, including me, to start work again. Usually there’s only one day’s holiday each for Christmas and New Year but this year a lot of people seem to have taken the whole period in between off, much as in the UK, perhaps because they’re ‘working from home’ due to Covid 😉

I started late so didn’t get as much done as I’d intended and before I could get going again on my ‘anti-sanglier’ fence, I had to do some reorganising of my garden store. We’re expecting some wind and rain in a few days time and I’ve found that with the two together, water gets inside onto its floor. So I needed to get the two ‘tounelles’ (little garden marquees) that I bought for last summer but never used, and a bag of cement, which up to now have been left on the floor, raised up so they won’t get damaged.

I placed a couple of lengths of timber under the tounelles to lift them and placed a pallet under the cement and after making a bit of space by moving my ride-on mower slightly to one side, things are now a bit more organised in there.

Then it was on to the fence. All I succeeded in doing today before the light began to fail was finish getting all of the three suspension wires in place that will support the wire mesh along the bottom segment of the fence and here a few shots taken before I called it a day.

I think that I’ll fit all of the suspension wires on the whole fence before I start hanging any of the mesh and if I get out reasonably early and get cracking tomorrow morning, I’m hoping that I’ll get to that point by the end of the afternoon. I need to press on before it starts to rain again as it can get very muddy down there, plus we’re also expecting a couple of very cold days, at around freezing, and I don’t think that it’ll be very nice working in that… 😕