Thursday 26/2/26 Fred made an incinerator from an oil drum for us, so we loaded it on the Gator truck which Fred has repaired as we had starting problems. We saw swans in the river on the way to the mill, Eddie took the incinerator and I went on the mower.
Mole hills have brought large stones to the surface which will cause damage or injury if caught in the mower blades. Eddie does litter picking in Swaffham so he borrowed two litter picking sticks which we used today to clear two buckets of stones from our lawns.
Eddie mowed the large lawn then fitted a hook and eye on the timber store door so it stays open when getting wood out, as the catch we fitted was not strong enough.
Anne Marie joined us and weeded the gardens, there are signs of life with lupin leaves beside the tunnel exit and primroses around the cherry tree. Anne Marie and I crossed our bridge to view snowdrops on our bank and daffodils flowering in the grindstones. We pulled ivy off the trees with bird nest boxes so they don’t get overgrown.
Squirrels had damaged a peanut feeder which Eddie repaired by patching the hole using thin pliers to sew it with garden wire. Eddie then filled the bird food and we saw a great tit come down for peanuts, a robin on the back of a bench and long tailed tits in the trees. I heard a lapwing calling and saw it fly down into the field behind the mill.
I took the incinerator over to the rubble heap and unloaded it, then put it up on bricks from the rubble. I burnt cuttings from the area we cleared for the compound and added fallen branches from our river bank which all burnt well. Anne Marie walked back while Eddie and I had hot sausage rolls for lunch in the wagon with the fire alight.
Our wildflower meadow was partly cut and sown last Autumn, but the rest needed cutting so Eddie mowed the grass there. We moved the picnic bench and I mowed the area where it stands and the lawn next to the meadow over the covered brick floor.
Graham Bartlett
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