Thursday 26 December

Done:

• emptied night buckets
• coffee, breakfast
• put in a load of laundry (curtain/sheets)
• hung out laundry + load from the other day
• put in load of laundry #2 (curtain/sheets)
• got into farm clothes, cleaned my teeth
• changed towels
• started dirty laundry round-up (Eric/Hugh still asleep)
• started cutting back grass (by hand) around the tyres on the driveway bank
• hung out laundry #2
• put in laundry #3 (delicates)
• changed cat litter tray
• did one tank's worth of slashing in the front garden
• sent E for more fuel for brushcutter 
• hung out laundry #3 in woodshed, brought in dry laundry
• tried to do a second lot of brush-cutting, but flooded the motor (aargh)
• ate lunch
• finished second lot of brush-cutting - front and south yard now done
• did a third tank's worth of brush cutting
• tried to do a fourth lot of brush-cutting, but flooded the motor (aargh)
• setn E&H outside to rake and barrow up the long cut grass and give it to the birbs