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Tuesday April 14, 2009
Déschets
One man's rubbish is another man's (toad's) wildlife sanctuary.
Yesterday (at last) we started to bag up the rubbish evicted from the
bakehouse. The lovely damp plasterboard (which helpfully disintegrated
as we picked it up) had become home to a number of toads - sorry about
that chaps. I carefully moved them to another suitably damp abode. No
toads were harmed in the making of this blog entry.
(We also found a nest of shrews, which unavoidably had a slightly sadder
outcome.)
Here is the bakehouse without rubbish pile, and showing the trench that
Lloyd has dug to carry electrics, water etc from the main house. (Currently
the electrical cable is strung through the apple trees!).
Today, Peter arrived at 9:30 with a trailer to help us move the rubbish to the déschetterie in Brécey. Unfortunately he did not realise the déschetterie is not open in the mornings so he was compelled to spend longer in our company than he had planned. We padded out the time until 2 pm with coffee and cake, and also lunch. But it wasn't long before I had inveigled him into moving our fridge and exploring the subsidence of our kitchen floor - which is such a disaster area of apparent dry rot that I don't want to dwell on it.
After he had gone, we went to buy new flooring, and later still, Lloyd came round bearing a circular saw, and set about cutting the wood to shape. Tomorrow we plan to soak everything in wood preservative/anti-fungus, and reassemble the floor.
Late in the evening I found one of the toads had decamped into our kitchen, imagining that under the cooker was a good place to set up a new house - even though it is not at all damp on top of the vinyl flooring as far as I know. I removed him back outside - explaining about the anti-fungus etc.
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