Nor’wester

We’re into the season of nor’westerly gales.

Jeanie and I had a walk at Bortons Pond this afternoon and after 40 minutes of battling to stay upright I decided to call it a day.

These cabbage trees were having a bad hair day.

Bean was askance when I opened the car and whooshed her inside. Her streamlining means that she had barely noticed the wind. Hopefully it’ll calm down overnight and we can get a proper walk tomorrow.

Earlier in the day I cut a new hole through one of the many wooden fences on the property.

They will have made perfect sense to the previous owners, who kept some livestock here, but for me they are mostly redundant.

Consequently I have removed parts or all of some fences and used the planks for building raised beds, compost bins and planter boxes.

The extra shows the new access from what I think of as the upper garden to the lower. Previously I wriggled around the end of the fence where it meets the boundary hedge. In fact for four years I did that. I wonder why it took me this long to break through?!