hard work ahead

the enormous wood pile spewing out of the barn windows needs cutting up and stacking
the elder is in flower and the flowers need picking and making into cordial
the linden tree is in flower and the flowers need picking and drying for tea
the underneath bit of the barn needs clearing out and cleaning
and the car that has a bit hanging off it, only one brake light and a squeaky noise needs taking to the garage
and the wood pile by the car needs completing and covering

thankfully, my (lovely, lovely, lovely) neighbour turned up today and asked if it was ok if he went with his boys to the forest tomorrow and cut the ENORMOUS pile of wood into metre lengths for us and if it was OK if the boys filled the trailor and brought the rest that is ready to bring down down and stacked it up...I would've kissed him but his wife prolly wouldn't've liked that...but she will like having those three out from under her feet for the day as they are the kind of people who get up early and want to DO things even though they could just stay in bed and do nothing. I'm so relieved that someone will be doing this for us, it's a weight of my shoulders, truly.

I did promise you a revolution this afternoon and I hope that you enjoyed it. It was an anarchist revolution so you could do what ever the hell you liked as long as it wasn't rools and stuff. I planted broccoli, salad and hops and bought flour and went to the post office. I could feel the Establishment quaking with fear. I think the New World Order will be quite exciting, though I'd leave out the post office bit - not, of course, because I don't like the post office people, they are very nice and helpful too but posting letters seems a bit too bourgeois, I prefer to send subliminal messages to people via blip. I hope you've got today's message?

An amusing end note and a question: the builders Had a Word with Mr. Spitzi when he came home from college today and told him that he should keep on working on getting his back better because he'll be better at sex then. As they are spending a lot of time with me at the moment and see me all day every day, I am assuming that I either look very deserving of better sex or very needy....but which? or both?

Oh, and - nearly forgot - that's Flea heading out to help me stack the wood. I don't know what I'd do without my tomboy. She's never scared of getting dirty or working hard and often has great ideas of how to solve a problem. Her reward for helping was getting to drive the car across the field (cool if you are 12!) and she's a damn good driver too. She blipped my new t-shirt today, so go and say hi to her :-)