Clearing

The clearing and organising of the garage continues. The first trip of the day was to Travis Perkins for another scaffolding plank, to Screwfix for some brackets, and to B&Q for some fixings that the Gorse Fox couldn't track down on the Screwfix website.

Back home the ladder brackets were fixed to the wall and two more ladders stowed in their right places. Then GF started on the brackets for the shelves. This proved a little harder than expected in as much as the high density building blocks used to construct the garage were a lot harder than expected and in the end the Gorse Fox resorted to his heavy-duty drill. Eventually two more shelves were up and the relevant boxes stored in their rightful positions.

Next, another crate of vinyl LPs had to be filled, sealed and stowed in the loft space. Some buckets (used by the Silver Vixen when dying fabric) were lifted onto hooks in the rafters. More junk was identified and moved to the front for the next trip to the tip. Progress is good, but there is still the problem of the tools. Crates full are scattered around and need sorting, culling, ditching, or storing. A task for next week.

We also headed round to Rose Green. We had been told of a Fishmonger/Butcher/Deli there and all who had been gave glowing reports. It's not huge, but the choice of meats and fish was superb. We ended up buying a whole salmon (£12) which he filleted and cut into portions for us. Seemed like good value.