27 February 2021 Isolation
Lovely weather so walkies then we decided to spray the fence but due to it not been a panel fence we wasted a lot of paint and it was a bit messy but all three of us worked on it we Percy Veard but will hand paint the next coat. Click on Image for BIG picture.
26 February 2021 Isolation
Bad weather so decided to visit the bank for some money and due to the amount we wanted we did not know if we could get it all from the ATM as the bank was closed , we drove to the Keswick bank and on arrival they closed the bank to get some money out of the ATM for the bank tellers ???? how strange.
At last lovely weather so back to fence painting and the Daffodils are coming out FAB. We are still noticing odd things on the farm lonnins and this next picture is of a pre-cast steel reinforced morticed post not sure of its earlier use.
The next image is again a railway sleeper different fixings to the previous images as it has Pandrol housings and is now a gate post.
The next picture is a stone–curlews nest or if you prefer a hedge playing pass the stone!
22 February 2021 Isolation
Mixed weather rain sun rain so no fence painting and some very wet walkies. The wild crocus are just coming out and the daffodils are just waiting for a couple of good sunny days.
Not caught anything on the WildWife camera yet accept this massive spider on the van?
18 February 2021 Isolation
Windy cold day with rain overnight so how is our day going to pan out after the exciting day we had yesterday ?
Walkies again with friend good as usual when we got back we looked at the new calf’s.
While looking around for things to do we found an old beer bottle from the now closed Maryport brewery the bottle is 100 years old and took a couple of weeks and some bleach to get all the solid remains of the dead slugs that have been in it for a while !!!
Founded c.1780.
Registered November 1890 to acquire the business of Frederic Robinson Sewell with 63 public houses. As a result of their tied houses in Carlisle being brought under state control in 1916, the brewery output was reduced by more than 50%.
So the houses left were sold to the State Management scheme in November 1916 and brewing ceased November 1921.
Over the last few months we have been putting together a large spider made of odd pieces of cardboard and the eyes made from shells we picked up off the beach at Cramond near Edinburgh.
We now have a Wildlife Camera and will hopefully get some images to place on the blog over the coming weeks .
17 February 2021 Isolation
A very interesting day today, out Pitter Licking again this morning with our friend Number 8 bag full and had an interesting couple of finds. No 1 is a pregnancy tester? at the side of the road in the hedge I suppose spring is nearly here and daffodils are breeding.
Next I know Clarks boots are supposed to last forever but this one is certainly hedging its bets!
Next we noticed on the upside side of the stream leading on to the beach a one way arrow showing the flow direction.
Next we noticed how lovely the snowdrops are looking across from the new holiday cottage.
And lastly the loft conversion in the new holiday cottage is not going as planned ?
14 February 2021 Isolation
Wow we have had some awful cold days lately as we are usually in Spain we feel it but whatever still getting out for our long walkies on a morning and had a second day cleaning up the rubbish on the roadside what we could extract from the frozen ground.
The painting of the fences is a bit slow as technically we are supposed to have 10 degrees temp and now wetness. Today the sheep have come across to see the new fence and gave a thumbs up.
9 February 2021 Isolation
Pitter Licking this morning with our friend managed 3 bags full (left them with a sheep who didn’t have any) in the first 300yards of the road SO we will have to come out again tomorrow and do another 3. Carried on with our walkies then had coffee before putting a second coat of paint on our sign it will be ready to varnish next. A lovely sunny day.
7 February 2021 Isolation
Good walkies this morning and managed to get our first layer of black paint on the sign we are painting to stop unauthorised traffic using the farm lonin. Our paper picker arrived this morning as we have all decided that it about time the road we walk along got a face lift their is so much litter, plastic and glass bottles so in the next couple of days (weather permitting) its our next job.
On our walk yesterday we noticed some Badger tracks see below.
5 February 2021 Isolation
The cold weather is still around although it thawed today
We have had a radiator fitted in the farmyard to help the builders!!!
4 February 2021 Isolation
Bad weather but we are putting on our foul weather gear and still getting a walk in. Back in December we found an old tin sugar container on the remains of the bonfire and have now created a Minion with it.
Before
After
