At last, after yet more hacking and chipping away and with grim determination I finally managed to extract the absurdly long stripped headed screw and the wood baton from the ceiling that I’d sweated over for much of yesterday.

It was a lovely sunny day for a change so I went to see the chaps and on my way back I picked up some willow fencing and started to fix that along the back garden wall adjoining the neighbours and then headed over to my friend’s for a lovely supper and evening with them.