There is one thing that I dislike more than dollopey women, it's when I act like one. (rolls eyes)
I did the Allotment chooks today, as DH was tied up. All fine. One of the Welsh Blacks is running around like a hedgehog, obviouslyin some discomfort. SHe dropped all her feathers in the space of a few days, and now they are all gromwing back at once. Poor love.
Anyway, It was raining. I did the chores, locked up, and left. Several hundred yards away, I didn't remember turning on the electric fence. Now, I've been here before. I do it automatically. But at this time of year, I just couldn't take the risk.
I thought I would save time by cutting across some other allotments to the back of ours, as I had DH's keys which had the fence tester on. It was harder than I expected to get to the back of our allotment. When I got there, the fence wasn't on.
I walked round to the front, and I could see that the energiser was on. BUt the fence wasn't. The bit of wire had that links the energiser to the fence had come off. I said a rude word. Last time I'd made that happen, it had been very serious. There was no clip on the end of the wire. I couldn't get it to stay on the pin thing. I ohoned OC Ohter Chap) to see if he could come and fix it.
As I was still on the allotment, he asked me what sort of screws the casing had, so he could bring the right tools. Nothing for it, I sank to my knees in the mud to try and work it out. And then I realised that I could actually reconnect it myself, it was the previouss energiser that was unfixable when this happened. I told OC that I thought I could fix it. He warned me to disconnect the energiser from the battery. It's turned off, does it matter. Yes. So, I unlocked the door, went in, disconnected the battery. Connected the wire to the terminal, connected the energiser to the fence, reconnected the battery, turned the energiser on - and it worked! Why was I such a dollop that I hadn't just checked it properly in the first place?!! OC just chuckled when I told him.
Several hundred yards back to the car, I couldn't remember whether I'd locked up. I remembered shutting the door, but I could not remember locking it. Botheration.
I had locked it.
Still, the exercise is good for me.
I did the Allotment chooks today, as DH was tied up. All fine. One of the Welsh Blacks is running around like a hedgehog, obviouslyin some discomfort. SHe dropped all her feathers in the space of a few days, and now they are all gromwing back at once. Poor love.
Anyway, It was raining. I did the chores, locked up, and left. Several hundred yards away, I didn't remember turning on the electric fence. Now, I've been here before. I do it automatically. But at this time of year, I just couldn't take the risk.
I thought I would save time by cutting across some other allotments to the back of ours, as I had DH's keys which had the fence tester on. It was harder than I expected to get to the back of our allotment. When I got there, the fence wasn't on.
I walked round to the front, and I could see that the energiser was on. BUt the fence wasn't. The bit of wire had that links the energiser to the fence had come off. I said a rude word. Last time I'd made that happen, it had been very serious. There was no clip on the end of the wire. I couldn't get it to stay on the pin thing. I ohoned OC Ohter Chap) to see if he could come and fix it.
As I was still on the allotment, he asked me what sort of screws the casing had, so he could bring the right tools. Nothing for it, I sank to my knees in the mud to try and work it out. And then I realised that I could actually reconnect it myself, it was the previouss energiser that was unfixable when this happened. I told OC that I thought I could fix it. He warned me to disconnect the energiser from the battery. It's turned off, does it matter. Yes. So, I unlocked the door, went in, disconnected the battery. Connected the wire to the terminal, connected the energiser to the fence, reconnected the battery, turned the energiser on - and it worked! Why was I such a dollop that I hadn't just checked it properly in the first place?!! OC just chuckled when I told him.
Several hundred yards back to the car, I couldn't remember whether I'd locked up. I remembered shutting the door, but I could not remember locking it. Botheration.
I had locked it.
Still, the exercise is good for me.
