Here’s mud in your eye ...

An early phone call from the local health system told us very carefully our options - renounce NHS care as overseas worker/spouse or pay for entry per annum as 7% of income.

Which is fair enough. Freedom of movement is constrained by many rules and hurdles. I suspect the UK has been less assiduous in their application than many. But then the UK had been, at least at aggregate level a big winner in the benefits of Freedom of Movement (if you discount Brexit - which is quite a big ask although it was never inevitable.).


Absolutely amazing the difference a €15 new chain on the chainsaw makes. I should buy a new one every week. Although it makes the saw just that little bit more jumpy. The faster the cut the bigger the kickback.

Felled blocking trees before getting stuck into more leylandii. Downing them is easy- the brashing up and stacking gets to be a right pain.

Watched some episodes of Fleabag on bbc which has been getting excellent comment on Twitter. Very in-your-face in a kind of whoa-there way. There’s a Curb your Enthusiasm vibe but the woman’s eye view feels pretty radical although it’s selling a narrative that I kind of believe and then wonder if believable.

The cut wood is Field Maple- acero campestri.