A good morning's shopping

To PLG Farm Supplies this morning in bright sunshine. Our shopping list includes:
- a sack of grass seed, pasture reclamation mix, enough for half an acre;
- 2.5Kg of collared (springhead) nails;
- one pair of rigger boots, size seven.

We really only need enough grass seed to re-sow the low point at the bottom of the field where the spoil from the pond excavation was spread, about an eighth of an acre at most. But half-acre sacks are the smallest they do.

Earlier we had been to the nursery near Aylsham and bought 140 Box plants to edge the parterre beds in Naomi’s redesigned front garden. Later I test drive an ancient Landover Discovery. Well, not ancient perhaps: getting on for ten years old with 145,000 miles on the clock, but in very good fettle. This is to be a replacement for Naomi’s Ford, in a roundabout way. She’ll take over the Kangoo, which really came into its own this winter.

Altogether a good morning’s shopping. In the afternoon we carry on reconstructing the front garden. We are putting back the two front gates as they would have been when these were two cottages. The gate posts are in place, and the oak gates are in the garage, waiting to be hung next week. Box planting tomorrow, I should think.