"Take your partner by the hand......"

Contra- dance, great fun and loads of physical contact - I love it!!

Still waiting for winter to arrive!

Ahh! just back to the peace of the country after four days dancing in Paris. Still waiting for the cold weather to hit. We've had a couple of cold days but now the winter sun is back. This isnt normal for february -but I'm not complaining. Back to Leeds tomorrow for MORE dancing.

The dangers of the countryside

I know they say the countryside can be a dangersous place... but you don't expect bother from a hosepipe!!!

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK".

Spent yesterday helping

"Dougie" with the ongoing job of felling three sycamore trees.

To be honest I only tidied up the off cuts but they said that was because I only had a small chopper!!!!

Steve x

Getting more butch by the day!!!

Finally drove the tractor toady ----Hurrah!!!

As I said to Dave, "That was easy, its just like driving a ...tractor". (Well it makes sense to me).

Must dash... off to my first choir practice.

Steve.

Blog Time!

Finding time to blog isn't as easy as I thought it would be!
Anyway, we're a few more days down the line and I think we're both starting to settle in slowly now we sort of know where at least some of the things we need on a daily basis are!
I went to get the stitches taken out of my finger last Friday, but was sent home again as the nurse "didn't have time to clean it up before taking them out!"

Those of you who are squeamish don't look at the above photo! (sorry)

Anyway, then made me another appointment for Monday and told me to clean it up before I attended, which I did the stitches are now out.

I've now got a lovely leather finger stall personally made for me, and we were even treated to a bedtime story - both by friends of Sue's who were here for the weekend.

Sunday 13th.
Today the community got together helped one of the families move from one part of the house to another.

It's great to see how people come together at times like this & many hands made light work. Sue looked after the children and Erica cooked lunch in big kitchen for us.

Tuesday 15th.

Had our first frost last night, which was welcomed as the garden has been too wet to work in, we dug a bean trench, lined it with cardboard, added compost and then put the soil back on top, leaving it to mulch ready for planting later in the year.

Steve has been doing loads of dancing, and another thing we are doing is playing 'tambourelli' -pictures to come - which is quite like badminton except you use round bats that look like tambourines! It's great fun!

More soon...

Hugs from Dave & Steve.

Cooking - the Archers way!!

Well, Cooked my first community meal yesterday. Strange having to go round the garden looking for ingredience rather than popping down to Tescos. Spend a while feeling stupid trying to figure out what the plants were!!

Finally managed to tell my parsley from my carrots and made enough food to feed us all for three days instead of one!!

And as for cooking on a Raeburn – its like stoking up the blood Titanic trying to get it up to temperature to cook on. I had heard Star trek’s “Scotty” in my head saying “She canna take it Capt’n – she’s gonna blow”!!!!

Anyway another task completed and another tick on my list of skills to learn.

Bye for now – the kettles whistling…
Steve