At last a chance to catch up on the blog thing. I always like to have summer project, this year its is to build a small shed for cars bikes and general stuff. The site is rather odd shaped at 4m wide by 14m long, so whoever wants their car out first will have to move the others first. "A week will build it" the salesman said, aye right!!! it has taken a week so far and only the sides are clad
But it is very good quality, all galvanized with anti drip roof sheets so I am pleased and it is not as if harvest is pressing, we will have 6 weeks yet before we start.
That brings me to the brakes problem, I had to collect my combine flotation tyres 800/32s from 50 miles away. In the middle of a busy village the brake coupling jammed locking all 4 wheels solid. I had no option but to drag the now smoking trailer off, up a side street, leaving a trail of black rubber across the main street. The residents were then treated to the site of a demented farmer with a hammer hitting a black hose with a hammer to get it off the tractor. The good bit was when I actually succeeded and got the hose off - it then spread oil, hot oil, over me and the back of the tractor. It did however release the brakes (if any of the residents are reading this not all farmers are oil covered, hammer wielding lunatics, just me.). Half an hour later I reached my destination and picked up the tyres. I then had to make a detour to the nearest machinery dealer to get a new brake coupling. Home three hours later, much, much poorer, covered in oil but with the tyres and a road legal trailer.
The news about our adoption is good, we have finally been referred a daughter, just over 6 months old, more news about her and how the process works to follow in some adoption related blog posts over the next 6 weeks or so