Date: 6 May 2011 Comments: 0

Well Romas one of our helpers as today installed a photo gallery plug in that should make uploading photos much quicker and simpler.

I have already uploaded two galleries so expect many more.

I thought the video facility was updated but it doesn’t seem to be working properly, I’m hoping to have this working soon so I can start a regular video blog update. To be honest I hate the sound of my own voice but hey, its quicker so I thought we would change this to a video blog.

As its not working yet then I’m back to typing.

We have got off to a great start this year, Jon, the carpenter who came last year for a month and ended up staying for 6 Months is back. He really is a talented guy, sometimes even he doesn’t realise how talented he is currently making a mammoth window frame in oak to replace the old out of character window in the office.

Chris from the US as now left heading for Belgium, we have Katie from Australia who is proving to be a real great help, she cleared the base of the tower that as been overgrown for a couple of years now, she is going to make a duck house next week so we can get some ducks on the moat.

We have Jess and Eric, Jess as been very busy in the veggie garden getting all the seeds in, we also have the greenhouse up at last so we are able to get things started quicker, one of the first video updates I do will be on the progress of the veggie garden, its much bigger this year and growing week by week, our 2 pigs Bacon and Sausage have churned up there pen area, so we have moved them to a new patch and are digging and rotavating their old patch ready to plant.

When I bought the castle in 2004 a friend of mine did some clearing, we had stones everywhere so we piled them all up in front of the castle, now we want that area clearing as we have the pool out front, so Eric volunteered to move them and move them he did, unbelievable, 3 days and all gone, we can now see the well again, Ill update with some photos tomorrow.

Romas from Lithuania arrived Monday, he too as been busy in the veggie garden, digging and preparing for the rotivator.  We now have plenty of potatoes, onions, lettuce (finally found some seeds for iceberg lettuce) spring onions, Broccoli, carrots, sweet corn, beetroot, radish, aubergine, tomatoes, Brussel sprouts and strawberry’s, next week we have cabbage, more lettuce, courgettes, cucumber, parsley, hot peppers, Mellon’s and many more due out of the greenhouse, all in all a much better start to the year than last year.

So, I’m going to sign off now before this becomes a novel, for those who have been following this blog i would like to thank you for your patience, from here on in there will be several updates a week, especially when the video plug in is done.

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More photos tomorrow.

Chris