Despite the dreaded lurgy catching up with us in August we did get some fencing done, during the first few early days of the month, and we even managed a bit of socialising with close friends that came to stay. Said friends had bought themselves a fabulous new camper, big enough to house two adults 3 fast growing boys, two dogs and an abundance of all the things that goes with a bustling family. When we suggested they come and join us and lend a hand in return for some open space to camp on and our good selves for company they jumped at the chance. They arrived rather tentatively driving the new camper down the somewhat treacherous track that leads to our bit of land, it’s a journey not for the fainthearted but they made it in one piece. The weather was not as we had hoped and for most of their stay it was soggy, we did still manage to hammer in a good few fencing posts and get the long-awaited fencing project started. The boundary of our land requiring fencing is at the bottom of a steep hill, meaning tools, fence posts and everything else required must be carried by hand up and down the hill. It’s not an insurmountable task, and it will get you fit fast, but it’s heavy work and needs a good team, having friends with us to start it off was a huge plus. Our boundary runs in line with beautiful ancient trees and rocks buried deep into the earth, this does make logistics of how to place the fence along the boundary a little tricky, one thing in our favour was due to the heavy rain the ground had become soft and malleable allowing us to easily drive in our fence posts (and take them out) when we got positioning wrong. The trees and rocks were trickier to tackle, and we would spend a lot of time deliberating how to go around them. The thing with fencing is (and I now spend a lot of time looking at fences trying to figure out how it’s been done) every time you have to change direction you have to put in a straining post and this is an immense job. Putting in a straining post is a good half days work (well at least for us it is) it requires a fair bit of strength and lot of patience, so you really don’t want to have change direction to often, ideally for fencing want a straight line with no interruptions, on flat ground, alas like most things in life theres rarely a straight line to follow. To the experienced fencer I’m sure all these issues would have been of no consequence, but when you are a first timer and have spent a fair bit of money on the fence posts, fence wire, and the tools required you really do want to get it right. Phill spent a lot of time researching the how’s and how not too’s and sussed most of it out using the school of Youtube, and now the first two hundred feet of fencing is complete, just several more hundred to go.