{"id":12120,"date":"2016-10-11T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:00:20","slug":"think-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/think-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Think ‘wood’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I came to France, my house in the UK had gas-fired central heating, so I never had to bother about thinking how to keep it warm in the winter. But now I rely on my wood-burner (or alternatively, electricity that you pay through the nose for), at about this time of year I have to start looking forward to the coming winter.<\/p>\n

I took the first step last week by getting a load of wood delivered, but I still need to get it cut and split ready for burning and safely stacked inside my wood store while the weather is still being kind to us. So as there was no sign of the aluminium that I need for the Weedhopper’s new doors, and I didn’t expect there to be until tomorrow, I thought that today I’d turn my attention to the garden. <\/p>\n

First thing was to get out my ride-on mower and check its battery as it hasn’t been started up for several weeks. Not unexpectedly, it wasn’t completely flat but didn’t have enough power to start the engine, so on it went to the battery charger. While it was charging, I then turned my attention to my wood store which was in severe need of attention and in no state to take any new wood until it had been completely cleared out and cleaned up.<\/p>\n

Spiders and other insects had had a field day during the summer months and the place was festooned with webs and dust. Everything had to come out before it was possible to make a start and while I was sweeping up all the burnable rubbish and thinking about starting a bonfire to get rid of it, the idea came to me that it would be a good time to go around the newly-terrassed area of the garden and pick up all the now dead and dry bits of root and branches that were left after Agrafeuil had finished their work and add those to the bonfire too.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I did, together with as many of the large dead weeds that were also there, with the result that when I’d also finished cutting the grass, which is now lush and green again after having been burnt and brown for so many weeks, the day finished up being quite a productive one. Here are a couple of shots of my newly cleaned and cleared wood store, now ready to take the new stocks that I’ll have to start cutting and splitting in the near future.<\/p>\n

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So no work on the Weedhopper today but a day well spent nevertheless. Hopefully, the aluminium tube will arrive as expected tomorrow and I’ll be able to make up its new doors and bring the end of the project ever closer. I’ll have to wait and see \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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