We got our new hedgehog house through the post the other day, and replaced our adapted re-cycling box with it.
Chez Hedgehog is now established under a low evergreen bush near some holly and other trees, with straw in and around it, ready for it's new owner(s)
No sign of "Spike" yet. Hopefully he survived his mis-hap, and is busy doing whatever hedgepigs do. We will keep a subtle eye on the entrance to the "house" and see if there is a new occupier at any time.
Sunday, 13 May 2007
We have our own "island"
The grass where we keep our trailer got VERY boggy through the winter, so we decided that at a convenient time we would create a platform ( or island in the winter) for the trailer to stand on, and big enough so that we can back up to it and start driving off, on a dry surface.
Ally found an advert in the local paper advertising FREE to a good home.. tons of hardcore.
Last Sunday the advertiser and I spent the day wheel-barrowing about 5 tonnes of rock, sand and rubble up his garden path, up into his big pickup and my trailer, and dumping it back home next to our trailer.
This weekend we hired a Wacker Plate, laid out the big rocks/bricks and so on, into a suitable island shape. Next, I had to breakup the biggest bits using my "Big Hammer", and then covered that with smaller rubble, then sand. "Wacker Plate" got started up yesterday, and it started compacting whatever it was put over. It has done a decent job of compacting everything, except all the rainwater, which it managed to spray everywhere, but mainly over me.
Where we have run out of stones, and the island is surface mainly with sand, it was compacted but very soft, with the qualities of quick-sand when wet! It eventually dried up a bit, and the island has now become very solid, although we do have a fairly uneven surface, but no puddles lying on it.
The next job will be to buy/ aquire some small stone that we can bed into the surface to give it some structure. We will need to make the island edges into a decent slope that we can get the trailer up and down, and maybe spread a bag or two of cement over the whole thing, so it becomes even more solid.
But we can now say that we have our very own island !!
Ally found an advert in the local paper advertising FREE to a good home.. tons of hardcore.
Last Sunday the advertiser and I spent the day wheel-barrowing about 5 tonnes of rock, sand and rubble up his garden path, up into his big pickup and my trailer, and dumping it back home next to our trailer.
This weekend we hired a Wacker Plate, laid out the big rocks/bricks and so on, into a suitable island shape. Next, I had to breakup the biggest bits using my "Big Hammer", and then covered that with smaller rubble, then sand. "Wacker Plate" got started up yesterday, and it started compacting whatever it was put over. It has done a decent job of compacting everything, except all the rainwater, which it managed to spray everywhere, but mainly over me.
Where we have run out of stones, and the island is surface mainly with sand, it was compacted but very soft, with the qualities of quick-sand when wet! It eventually dried up a bit, and the island has now become very solid, although we do have a fairly uneven surface, but no puddles lying on it.
The next job will be to buy/ aquire some small stone that we can bed into the surface to give it some structure. We will need to make the island edges into a decent slope that we can get the trailer up and down, and maybe spread a bag or two of cement over the whole thing, so it becomes even more solid.
But we can now say that we have our very own island !!
"The Course" continues
Part III started last Tuesday with a new coach and my old training partner. This is the Ability To Instruct" section, where we are learning & producing lesson plans for a whole load of skills. I started doing these Plans in my 20-year old method, with all the details.
At the last session we were given 5 skills to complete Plans for, and to learn all the instructional prases for the pupils to be able to carry out the skills.
Apparently the old-fashioned method is old-fashioned, and I should only be writing down key words that will remind me about various phases or questions to ask. Easy ! Done, Sorted, Diagrams created. All I need to do now is type them up so that I can read them under pressure, and then continue with other skills' Plans, so that I can get ahead of the game.
I am sure the requirements and the teaching skills will get hard as we continue through Part III, so my plan is to be ahead whilst I can !
At the last session we were given 5 skills to complete Plans for, and to learn all the instructional prases for the pupils to be able to carry out the skills.
Apparently the old-fashioned method is old-fashioned, and I should only be writing down key words that will remind me about various phases or questions to ask. Easy ! Done, Sorted, Diagrams created. All I need to do now is type them up so that I can read them under pressure, and then continue with other skills' Plans, so that I can get ahead of the game.
I am sure the requirements and the teaching skills will get hard as we continue through Part III, so my plan is to be ahead whilst I can !
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