The picture below shows you how perpendicular the angle was and our bumper was beginning to touch the road, scraping it and doing it damage. A quick temporary fix had been implemented to enable us to get out and about.
As a result of the constant friction between ground and bumper, our car is now under repair.. k has been busy fixing it, 3 new tyres ordered, which arrived mid-week after only a few days. My heart in my mouth every time we went up and down.The image below really doesn't do the terrible condition of the road justice. The middle bit was extremely steep!!!
News Update
Our road has been fixed by the Comune, and it is now looking a lot better in the most terrible sections!
What we would like to be added to the road...
Grubs
This week I have been out in earnest catching snails and then depositing them in our field as far away from my plants as possible. I read that if they are placed 65 feet away from where you find them, they won't come back to the same place (ie pots). Let's see if this works! They have been decimating my plants, and this is not ok!
I have also been digging out all my fresh compost from the compost bin, to add to the veggie plot and towards the bottom I found quite a few of these grubs. Please look away if you are squeamish!
I then placed them in front of the chicken pen and Freddy and co had a feast gobbling them all up in an instant!
Thus, the life cycle goes round and round and then the chicken droppings will go straight into the compost bin and the grubs will turn the mixed contents of the bin around to make lovely fresh friable compost. Nothing at all is wasted, and the book below, Soil, Humus & Manuring, printed in the year I was born, is providing me with invaluable advice about the gentle art of composting!! It makes for fascinating bedtime reading, and I am not joking :-) It's a really practical handbook.
Contents of the compost bin have been dug out:
Added to the veggie plot area, ready to be spread out before planting begins in earnest at the end of May.
Furkids' Update
One of the new kittens peeking out of a box
Samantha gazing out
It has been a very busy week, but ultimately very satisfying. Roll on Week 22!
Cute kitty pic as always. I'm really glad that your road is being repaired. Doesn't it take ages to get things done!!! You are lucky to have Freddie and friends to eat your bugs. I have been drowning mine in some old ale that M won a couple of years ago, and didn't drink :-)
ReplyDeleteI'll have to try using ale to eliminate slugs, but I don't think K would like to give it away for this purpose somehow, lol!
ReplyDeleteYes, our road has been the bane of our life for the past few years. It's interesting that nobody mentioned it was a problem when we bought it, so the old adage of 'caveat emptor' is a very good one. Anyway, at least we are getting the road fixed, slowly but surely and it is a positive thing. A chance meeting in Civitaquana with the Lord Mayor today was an excellent opportunity to mention the anticipated completion of the road works....