Today we had arranged to visit Pershore College's plant sale with Mummy Sheila, and Jane M. We first visited the college sale a couple of years ago, and I can report that things have certainly changed!
Back in 2024 we attended a sale of plants that had been propagated by the horticultural students at the college. This year was a much larger event and featured talks and exhibits from all of the college faculties ... arboriculture, through hair and beauty to animal care. There were craft and food stalls and, of course, the nursery plant sale.
We had a splendid morning wandering around the college ground in the lovely sunshine, and we filled the boot of 30%'s car with plants. We also had an interesting chat with the lady who was selling local apple juice. It was all pressed and bottled on site, and the college will, for a fee, press one's apples and bottle and pasteurise the juice. The only proviso is that the minimum quantity is 100kg of apples. We are confident that the orchard can easily deliver that quantity of apples, so we may well be drinking our own apple juice in the Autumn.
In the afternoon I headed out to the carport, and attempted to reorganise the space. I eventually cleared the left hand bay and then spent an hour constructing a log storage bay from pallets. I lad out two pallets on the floor, side by side. I then fixed pallets to the back and sides to make an open fronted bay. It is very crude, but it will help to stabilise the logs that will be stacked in there.
It was getting late in the afternoon, by the time I had constructed the log storage bay, but I wanted to make a start on splitting the wood that I had sawn yesterday. I split a couple of small logs, and then started on bigger sections of tree trunk.
I definitely found my log splitting mojo, and it was close to eight o'clock before I unplugged the log splitter and retired indoors for dinner.
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