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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-05 12:26:25

Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
#Crofting

My re-hung garden gate, open. Behind it, the short frosty turf of my meadows stretch away to the horizon; a few black cattle graze under a blue sky.
My gate, closed, from the outside. The strainer post is noticably squint, which I'm not at all proud about, but it's good enough. In the foreground, the old posts lie on the frosty ground.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-12-14 14:06:37

Today was hardly the ideal day to be grodgelling in the dirt like one of Jinian Footseer's gobblemoles, but then today was not the ideal day for the cattle to demolish the garden gatepost. Fortunately, I did have a replacement steel gatepost ready to go in.
#crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

Me, covered in filth, with a spade and a pinch bar, beside a deep dark hole, with the collapsed gate and the culprits behind me. It is a wet day.