Phewww - I ache!
If the Lord had meant me to dig up tree stumps he would have blessed me with upper body strength instead of an ability to make pastry.
It might not sound like an effort, but for me two hours digging, brushing, persuading, coaxing and brutally hacking a stubborn lump of wood is quite enough for one evening.
I've got one of those weird wobbly nervous twitches in my hand now so I'm typing very slowly!
Got the bugger to at least move though, and I can see the last artery of life that I need to sever some other time.
It will be good to get it done, so we can think about booking in blokey to build The Wall. This seems to have become T's "nest-building" project, so I can see why she's keen to get on with it.
I noticed today she's been clearing a lot of ivy and general crap from around the fally-downy-fence. So the sooner we get it sorted the better.
Book him in first, and then think about finding the money later.
Offering this daily as one of our more trivial prayers - that sufficient money comes our way not only in time for the holiday but also to "do the garden".
Having said that, money is steadily trickling in to the office now that the guide is out and doing its own thing. We have posted over a 1000 and get a dozen or so enquiries a day since the Press Release went 'live' at the weekend.
Also managed to get a payment out of LJ (owed since feb) and - shock horror - First Bus, whom we invoiced in November.
D today visited another restaurant that owes us from the Southampton VG and picked up £500. Only one of those left now.
Spent three hours at the Cruise terminals today becasue I now feel involved with the project and have decided I can mangae the campaigns effectively. D is totally useless at this side of things and totally disinterested in a poster once its up on the wall. he can't do logistics or planning, so that will be where I can keep the idea going. As I've said before, it's relatively easy to sell a good idea.
But we need to still be running media campaigns at the sites in ten years time, and that is much harder.
It's now come about that we can a) organise a tour of the sites for councillors and media-buying agencies and have catering at one of the terminals and b) arrange for Sunseeker (or similiar) to put a boat on display in one of the halls during the boat show!
We need to get some idea of how much things like that are worth and charge accordingly.
Another exciting opportunity.