Best laid plans...and all that

Back in January I forwarded Woody an email, a scheduled of works that I thought were a workable and achievable plan of action;

At this point we had been working and clearing for a couple of months already so I (and perhaps Woody) thought this was do-able if we kept up the momentum even factoring in our busy work schedules often requiring overseas travel, finances and general life stuff.

It is now early April and the innocent little list is underway, but not complete.  There are seriously not enough hours in the day or days in the week!

• Most of the major tree chopping has been done, with the resulting materials stacked in log and brash piles...we will sort those at a later date, there's no rush as and the wood can season while stood in the field.  We may sell or use the wood ourselves if we get a wood burner.

• The fence is nearing completion, hopefully over the Easter weekend, but I think we have learnt not to push or overestimate this as it is more complicated than stabbing some posts in and stringing some wire up.

• Woody has repaired one of the old curved ended gates, with its first coat of white paint it is ready for hanging over Easter, I will give it another coat or two when we have a good warm spell of weather.

• Materials wise, we have most of the posts although may need another run of stock netting.  We thought we would be railing the fence but now that we decided not to (post and rail works out to about £20pm...work that out over 500m of fencing!) so the rails we did buy can be used to patch some of the gaps in the hedge along the woodland boundary.

• Water:  still a bit of a snag with our water supply, so we are looking into finding out where the rumored Well is alongside future plans of drilling a borehole.  For the mo our lovely neighbors are happy to let us remain connected to their supply (Thank you!).

• We have acquired the pony company for my horse, times three!  This has overloaded the situation and put the pressure on.  I fully realise this and put my hands up, but we are now where we are and we can only push on for a bit of a sprint finish.  

Lessons have been learned, and really I guess that is what this project is all about, its a good test of teamwork!  I will be back to stripping more barbed wire out of the hedge this weekend and fingers crossed all four horses will be on the land with the last bit of fencing going up.

Anything is possible!!