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Today we decided to give the garden clearance a miss and build the bat box. Clive had a book that involved all kinds of research into the best design to attract bats. I'm sure someone got a PhD out of this because it is a real belt and braces construction. It took most of the morning to cut out the pieces and Clive has a barn full of every conceivable woodworking machine you could imagine. By mid afternoon (phew it was hot) we had a bat box ready to be positioned in one of the trees overlooking the terrace.
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The barn is superb, yes it's a junk hole but it's the kind of space we all wish we had. Lots of room on two floors for working, pottering about and storage. Oh so much storage space but of course you can never find anything. We had a lot of fun today.
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The best transport around High Horse is of course the Mule. This beast will drive up tracks I'd have trouble walking up.