Rain disrupted play

I made an early start as planned this morning on my new ‘anti-sanglier’ fence. Here’s the gorgeous sight that greeted me when I stepped outside my caravan first thing while the sun was still rising.

I didn’t get quite as much done as I wanted to, though. There were two reasons – firstly the day was disrupted by some showers early on in the afternoon and secondly, I decided to reduce the span between the suspension wire tensioners to a standard of 3 posts or 12 metres on the long runs.

This meant that I needed more of them and had to go top Brico Depot to pick up six more, plus another reel of suspension wire while I was there. Even so, I managed to get all of the remaining and the extra tensioners mounted in place and half of the longest section of fence wired up.

I could probably have got it all done but for the wind picking up and some heavy black cloud rolling in. It didn’t actually start raining again but it got quite dark (my phone camera always makes dark shots look much lighter than they were in reality) so I decided to call it a day. Here are some shots of where I got to.

I’m managing to make quick progress now I’ve learnt how to go about things and have developed my technique, so hopefully I’ll be able to get the rest of the wires in place pretty quickly tomorrow. Then I’ll be able to start hanging the mesh on Thursday, which should start to make the job look a lot more complete than it does up to now 😉