Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Feeling a bit shabby this morning. Three of us went to the Cambridge bar in Dinan last night and over indulged slightly. This was my first visit and I noticed that quite a few ex-pats regulars frequent the bar. Not really my scene.
Been painting new shutters for the windows today. It's has been trial and error searching for the correct finishing product to protect the wood. There is a huge choice of products, most of them anti-fungual, anti-termite (worm), anti-uv, anti-everything. Ended up using Bondex lassure medium oak. Lassure seems to be like a varnish but soaks into the wood and gives a matt finish.
Pruned the apple trees very heavily. I'm not sure what I'm doing here, but last year I could not get to most of the apples, so I decided to lop the tops off and try to make the tree bushier. The French seem to pollard all thier trees and use the wood for the fire. So when in Rome...
Turned over the compost bins and used the good stuff at the bottom for the vegtable patch. Caroline rotovated it in and planted some spuds. Just like Tom and Barbara in The Good Life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/g/goodlifethe_7772855.shtml
