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Monday 6th 40F/4.4C [7.35] Bright but quite cloudy. Expected to gust to 16m/s only slowly reducing.
Up at 7.15after a mixed night.
9.25 Heavy overcast. Going for a walk.
9.50 Back again. Blowing a gale. My eyes and nose were streaming. The road was covered in hundreds of twigs and branches. Blown out of the hedgerows. After the tractor hedge slashers had dropped everything on the verge.
I have to attend to the clear polycarbonate sheet in the corner of the greenhouse. Despite the bolts and all the spring clips I fitted last time it blew out. The panel had been sucked out yet again. Just a matter of rescuing the spring clips from the undergrowth and refitting them. The bolts had held the corner edge. The far side of the panel is held only by clips. There is nowhere to fit bolts through the aluminium frame on that side.
12.00 I have been wandering about outside. Seeing what needs doing. Lots! Still blowing an eye watering gale.
A contractor has turned up with a tractor. Equipped with a flat girder frame in front. Where a bucket would normally go. He is making very quick work of scraping the drive flat. Using the existing material rather than importing new? We'll see what happens next. Rain may undo everything he achieves. Unless he uses a roller or compacting plate vibrator. And/or brings in gravel. To dress the top surface.
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