Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: August 23, 2006

well well well

aka. 'what drought order?'

here's mike, roger and dominic from MJS lowering a section of the well into the very deep hole they dug in our front garden.
there's an element of urgency in getting the rings in before the hole collapses on itself.

i'm very excited about our well.
it will mean a few things:
we won't be effected by the drought order (we'll still be able to hose fill the pool, water the vegtable garden, sprinkler system the lawns etc.)
we won't pay water rates.
and we'll have totally pure, ice cold drinking water forever.

mike strong is from one of the two traditional well building families left in britain.
his forefathers have been building wells for centuries.
he's a fascinating bloke: he was due to retire but he LOVES building wells, so continues...

we've now been at the farm for over a week.
every day we're loving it more and more.
i LOVE the area and i love our little farmstead/ sanctuary.

at dusk, at the end of 6hrs straight, strimming out nettles and thistles from under trees in the orchard, i walked round to the pool, exhausted, sweaty, and soaked (it was raining all afternoon) took off all my clothes and fell (deliberately) into the steaming water.
made all the grafting worthwhile.

i bought a magazine called 'poultry farmer' today.

james cooked an amazing blackberry (picked from the orchard) gravy to go with the butchers pork and sage sausages we got this afternoon.
delicious.
only been cooking on the AGA since getting here.

didn't mention yesterday but had a minor disaster last night.
parked the R32 outside the back kitchen door (on a slight slope) and sat down for some dinner.
when the alarm started off i naturally assumed someone was trying to rob it.
but instead, it had rolled back down the slope (i hadn't put the handbrake on enough) and through the metal fence at the bottom.
killed an ancient stone vase there and scraped ALL down one side (both doors, back and front wings and bumpers) of the car.
:(
that car is fated.
but like mrs.perou said: 'thank god it wasn't during the daytime when there was children playing behind it'.