What a lovely day

Yes, it has been lovely here for the last couple of days, especially yesterday when  I had to drive over to Welshpool first thing to pick up a shower tray.  I saw several buzzards sitting on hedges and fence posts enjoying the sun, snowdrops along the bottoms of all the hedges, blue skies and sunshine - frosty but beautiful.  It really feels as if spring is in the air (we do keep reminding ourselves that it is still only February).  Best of all though was . . . no wind!  It really has been horrendous for the last few days.  Usually we hear the wind in the tops of the trees, but don't get too buffeted in our little sheltered hollow, but Thursday and Friday night were actually quite scary with the caravan being rocked and the wind howling all around.  Apart from the wheelbarrows being knocked over and lots of little twigs everywhere, there was no damage at all which really surprised us.  Needless to say, by Saturday we were both shattered as we'd had very little sleep for two nights.

We have now got all the studwork up for the en-suite upstairs - it's a bit complicated and either looks like a mad climbing frame or (if we painted it black) the wall of a Chinese restaurant.  We have managed to squeeze in a 1200mm x 900mm shower which isn't huge, but will be pure luxury after the tiddly thing we have in the caravan - you really are in trouble if you drop the soap! Hopefully, the plumber should be coming tomorrow or Friday and he can now put in the pipes for the shower and basin in there as well as re-routing all the pipes we had to take out last week.  Don't think he'll be very pleased with that bit, but I guess it would always be a niggle at the back of our minds during really cold weather, so best done.

On Monday night I went on a free taster course in Calligraphy which was quite good.   You obviously can't get very far in two hours, but better than nothing (and free!).  I had signed up for the 5 week course, but only two other people had enrolled so it was cancelled and they did this instead.  Tonight we are off to a pub in a nearby village for a Smallholders committee meeting.  The Chairman and Treasurer (a married couple) have both resigned over the purchase of computer and projection equipment with a grant a member had managed to get for us.  They would be useful for speakers who want to show pictures or have Powerpoint presentations, we could set up slideshows when we have stands at local shows and design leaflets and posters. They didn't think it was a good idea and have stalled the purchase for months and took umbrage at the rest of us trying to get on with it.  All sorts of accusations have been made and so we have a lot of sorting out to do to make sure the group keeps running smoothly without them.  Small committee politics, eh?  At least we can have a beer while we sort it out!