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   Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:55:13 JST Stevan

   If I've been grumpier than usual the last few days, it's because I knew we were expecting the last of our winter fuel deliveries this week. That means getting it into the wood store.
   Here's as far as the delivery lorry can get the pallets, and then an indication of the hill that needs climbing with the sacktruck. I can only manage about 50kg at a time without throwing up too much, so it's a long process - at least 50 trips. Herself stacks them at the wood store end

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:55:11 JST Stevan

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     • Chris Cooke

     @baz Butt away. We've done that before, when rain has meant our kind neighbour let us unload the pallet lorry into her garage. I's not very good for the car, and I think that's where we may have broken the springs of an earlier car. Goth Leo the #EV is just over a year old and we don't really want to risk damaging him.
     What we are doing is keeping an eye open for a four-wheeler that might come our way. But this toil is usually just twice a year, and is a real opportunity for a good moan. 😃

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:55:12 JST Stevan

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     Lunch break.
     And a memory when I was a littler kid, of both my grandfathers sweating buckets when they exerted themselves.
     My friends, I have become my grandfathers.
     On the positive side, the wood blocks mustn't get wet or they disintegrate. So it's usually a rainy day when we take delivery. But today is glorious, with a pleasant breeze.
     We're more than halfway through now, and later I can go and wibble quietly in a corner.

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     Chris Cooke (baz@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:55:12 JST Chris Cooke

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     @withaveeay Excuse me butting cheekily in, but it seems to this distant onlooker like one might save energy by loading the fuel into the car, driving that to the house, then unloading it again there?

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 22:53:31 JST Stevan

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     Hooray! A full wood shed and the promise of a warm winter to come. Buying it now means a saving of about 40% over what last winter cost us, and there is very little as comforting as a full woodshed.
     Absolutely knackered, having effectively walked 10km pushing or pulling a 50kg weight. But it's worth it.