I have decided that constructing the raised beds is not an urgent job. I was helped with this decision by the Royal Horticultural Society who I had resorted to for advice on the filling of said raised beds and clocked an off the cuff remark on their website that this is typically a job left for winter time. The dark winter months. I have the scaffold planks ready down the side of the house.
Ideally I would make a start on the new compost bins but time is running short before we head away on our next trip and I need to get some packing done. Not that it will take long to do the packing, once the decision on which underpants/tshirt/trousers etc has been made. Decisions decisions. Half thinking of taking my love and peace leather jacket but it might be too warm for that. Will let you know obvs. Natch.
Taking one suitcase between us. My red one. THGs is yellow but we aren’t taking that one. Will be away five nights. Ordinarily I try to avoid hold baggage but it makes sense on this occasion. We have an allowance of 3 x 32kg suitcases each! Don’t think I could fit 32kg worth of stuff into mine unless I was smuggling gold bars. Do you need to smuggle gold nowadays? Don’t have any gold anyway so this is a bit of a red herring. A pointless thread. If I did I certainly wouldn’t put it in a hold bag. Kiss that gold goodbye. Could be iron bars I suppose but I don’t have any of them either, afaik.
Today is therefore going to be a gentle day of preparation. I do envisage finishing off the DANGER DEEP WATER sign. It just needs the words painting on it. I’m not a signwriter but if I practise a bit I’m sure it will be foine. Gonna be red writing and I’ll use the same red to finish off the lifebelt which will then be ready to put in place by the lake. The set of acrylic paints came with a variety of brushes, one of which is very thin and ideal for delicate sign writing jobs like this. Keep you posted.
This acrylic paint has already had more use than the watercolours I bought to fill the shuttered empty void of lockdown. I am going to need one of those small plastic paint pallets with little wells to hold different colours. Only realised that when I saw that the small tubes of paint have a hole in the top through which you squeeze the paint. I already have a tropical trefbash tiki can to hand for use when washing the brushes and the brushes themselves are already proudly standing in another, pink tiki can. Gotta keep your workspace tidy innit.