April 28. 2014

Less than a week to go
until the wedding! We are gradually getting the place into order but it is exhausting
work. Today Edd is moving the big round hay bales out of the way. Luckily we
had a fine day last week when the paddocks were dry and Edd co-ordinated
several families so that a truck could collect the bales from down the road and
bring them back to the farm. This happened later in the day than originally planned
so the just got dumped on the flat land outside the house where they are rather
in the way.

Anyway it was dry
enough to move them again today to a more suitable location. It was also dry
enough to for me to complete the small brick walls for the latest grow bed by
the ruins. There was a patch of rough ground that Edd was worried people might
trip on in the dark but it is now pretty much enclosed in the grow bed. I cannot
fill the bed with soil or anything until the cement is dry, but that’s a job
for later.

The weekend was very
busy with a working B here on Saturday and a large Permaculture tour here on
Sunday. Luckily Sunday was a lovely sunny day so the latter occasion went well.  The wedding arrangements progressed
too. Straw bales are now all arranged in the poly house as seating and tables,
and the boat has been stood on end to make a backdrop for the speeches. A forest
of bamboo poles has been set up ready for the prayer flags and just by luck we
discovered that my big white shade sheet fits the front pergola perfectly.

With all this nonstop
activity we have eaten a massive pile of goats cheeses, and I have totally
failed to find time for the routine jobs like sorting out laundry and even
washing my hair. I am using the evenings to try and sew a suitably warm and mud
proof outfit for the wedding. There is enough material left to make a cloak but
I have not worked out how yet.