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We spent a good chunk of the weekend in Maynooth, getting to know the place, moving over a few boxes of stuff, and rather usefully, unpacking them at the other end so that they can go back and get refilled. We also bought a lawnmower - the self-propelled kind for reasons of environment, exercise, and not having to buy fuel for it - and some gardening tools. And we got a microwave, which will make the process of eating while we move more stuff a lot easier.
I dug a sort of test vegetable bed, which I think totals about four square feet, but it'll be enough to get some planting done - more can follow. I'm starting to give some more consideration to raised beds, since there are trees in the hedge whose roots come a long way out, and one tree in the middle of the back garden. I had to use an axe for some particularly tough roots in my test bed. It looks like good soil, though I'm no expert, neither sand or clay, and a good few earthworms and such.
We also mowed some lawn. It should be easier next time; there were some patches of grass long enough to choke up the blades. The back lawn is full of daisies, and I can't bring myself to be bothered about that. I'm leaving a stretch at the back long, and will see about getting some more wild flowers into it at some stage, although some of it will be sacrificed to more vegetable beds.
It's very noticable that it's Not In A City - you can hear birds all the time, even inside with the windows closed, and there's a definite difference in air quality. The cats are going to love it when we move them, once they finish sulking.
Today, I've managed to contact Eircom and the ESB, and am trying to get onto Bord Gáis to get everything changed over and hooked up. Their phone system seems to be lightly b0rked, and the options which should let me talk to them about it keep cutting me off, or on one occasion, announcing in Very British Tones that the "specified number has redirections active", before cutting me off.
We don't really know yet when we'll be Moving Properly - at the moment that's dependent on things like broadband, transport, time, whim and chance.
I dug a sort of test vegetable bed, which I think totals about four square feet, but it'll be enough to get some planting done - more can follow. I'm starting to give some more consideration to raised beds, since there are trees in the hedge whose roots come a long way out, and one tree in the middle of the back garden. I had to use an axe for some particularly tough roots in my test bed. It looks like good soil, though I'm no expert, neither sand or clay, and a good few earthworms and such.
We also mowed some lawn. It should be easier next time; there were some patches of grass long enough to choke up the blades. The back lawn is full of daisies, and I can't bring myself to be bothered about that. I'm leaving a stretch at the back long, and will see about getting some more wild flowers into it at some stage, although some of it will be sacrificed to more vegetable beds.
It's very noticable that it's Not In A City - you can hear birds all the time, even inside with the windows closed, and there's a definite difference in air quality. The cats are going to love it when we move them, once they finish sulking.
Today, I've managed to contact Eircom and the ESB, and am trying to get onto Bord Gáis to get everything changed over and hooked up. Their phone system seems to be lightly b0rked, and the options which should let me talk to them about it keep cutting me off, or on one occasion, announcing in Very British Tones that the "specified number has redirections active", before cutting me off.
We don't really know yet when we'll be Moving Properly - at the moment that's dependent on things like broadband, transport, time, whim and chance.