Jaws!

So...last night our neighbours lost three hens to the pesky fox. Once again it, unbelievably, chewed through the wire netting to get into their pen. There had been no sign of it for days and now it has had another decent meal to sustain it for longer.

The siege goes on!

We can rebuild it!

So...today we set about fixing the hole in the wall in Frogknot. Will built a wire and hail net skin to cover the inside which we then covered with an earth plaster. It went better than we expected...

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Hello baby!

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Urgent repair.

So...it would seem that, unbeknownst to us, water has been leaking from the roof into the wall that collapsed yesterday and also into the books on the bookshelf that was on the other side of the wall inside the house. I cleared all the collapsed debris away today and when Will got back from cheese making we set about trying to resolve the leaky roof. More rain is forecast in the next few days and while the hole in the wall can wait, we need to stop the rain from coming in. The problem it seems is that the walls have sunk so much that the supporting roof beams have lessened the slope on the roof. We weighed up the options and in the end went for the easiest and just stuffed bits of wood under the tin to raise it up higher and increase the slope of the roof down to the gutter. It looks much better and the next downpour will prove us right or wrong.

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Wall Fall Down!

So...look what happened late this afternoon...

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...Part of the wall of Frogknot collapsed. We have had quite a bit of rain these past few days and some of the straw bales look sodden. It doesn't appear that anything further is in danger of collapse and hopefully we can attend to it at the weekend and patch it up a bit.