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Saturday, December 05, 2009
a year between posts? how very country of me.
the new roof has made it warmer in winter. I hope it will be cooler in summer too, because I'm actually going to spend a bit of time up there (in short bursts) over the next month or so.
it has also changed the sounds the place makes; no more tin panels creaking in the wind. less echoey.
and the lovely underground electricals killed my fruit trees. or more correctly, the idiot electrician who didn't fill the trench in - that would be the trench under the rabbitproof fence, did. apparently almond tree bark tastes of almond.
only one tree survived. at least the builder, when shown the 17 other dead trees (three years old and nursed through last summer so well established) offered to replant. but the new trees are smaller and not coping so well with the early heat. sigh. I just have to buckle down and get them through. one day there'll be fruit.
the new roof has made it warmer in winter. I hope it will be cooler in summer too, because I'm actually going to spend a bit of time up there (in short bursts) over the next month or so.
it has also changed the sounds the place makes; no more tin panels creaking in the wind. less echoey.
and the lovely underground electricals killed my fruit trees. or more correctly, the idiot electrician who didn't fill the trench in - that would be the trench under the rabbitproof fence, did. apparently almond tree bark tastes of almond.
only one tree survived. at least the builder, when shown the 17 other dead trees (three years old and nursed through last summer so well established) offered to replant. but the new trees are smaller and not coping so well with the early heat. sigh. I just have to buckle down and get them through. one day there'll be fruit.