
I've been dragging back a set of scrap wood from a building scrap pile. I've asked permission of everybody I've seen (including a passerby who had nowt to do with it, it turned out!). The guys there today were incredibly sweet, when I told them I wanted scrap that was suitable to make a raised bed, they were going to let me have a mooch, but they were worried about me stepping on nails, so they ended up mooching about for me, and when they found a lurvely couple of pieces, took 5 minutes to bang all the nails safely down. Very sweet.
I'm also tidying like crazy. And I've arranged for an online delivery today from Viking Direct - 1st class stamps are going up 12% on 1st January, and I'm not prepared to go into a post office to buy them. I bought a couple of dozen, which will probably last 18 months or so, fine. To get free delivery, I had a play with some prepping type things: cheap protective glasses (virus enters through the eyes, sadly
