Social Isolation Comes to Settle

Since our home became a building site we have had to install high fencing around the perimeter.  This meant taking down the insufficiently high existing wooden fence to our southern boundary, lovingly made in Midland Railway style nine years or so ago.  For a long time it has lain horizontal in long grass, suffering an unknown fate.

Yesterday it was re-erected.  The original had been crooked because of existing trees but now it is string-line straight - and very good it looks too:

When the planting takes hold and the balcony is finished this will be a spectacular feature area.

The grounds to the rear of the apartments next door are, to put it politely, a natural habitat.  We have left a gap in the fence at the top which will enable four footed friends access.  To be fair, residents of the apartments simply had no safe access whatever to their grounds at the rear.  Now they have, via ours by arrangement if they wish.

Coronavirus will, we hope, think twice before entering.  Settle social club have changed the wording of their blackboard from 'Open as Usual' to:

No prizes for arithmetic or spelling but a nice thought.