Day 21 - An alarmingly tree-mendous day for Foxie.

We started the day with an activation to our fire alarm panel in Foxlease House,  which resulted in consistent and persistent pre-alarm warning beeps.  The nice engineer was called and checked everything over and gave us the all-clear but apparently the sensors don't like being chilly, dusty or damp (a bit like Foxie) and so sometimes get a bit temperamental - it's a good thing that sorting the heating was already on our to do list as soon as possible!

With that resolved, our wonderful cohort of volunteers arrived and helped us with some exterior and interior cleaning and landscaping at the top of the site and the difference a day of hard work from a great team makes is amazing!  With morning tasks completed, some of the team then moved on to cleaning in the ground floor of The Lodge and in some minor fixing details in The Accessible Suite - the blind in the front room is now the right way around, which is excellent.

The other highlight of this morning was seeing the departure of Big Skip, which was so well filled from the work last week it lifted the lorry's front tyres off the floor to about knee level (depending on how tall you are) when it was loaded!. Thankfully, the skip man in his festive santa hat seemed unconcerned and Big Skip exited the site, leaving only Baby Skip (now half-full) behind.

The Rug Doctor got a further work out and made excellent progress with another set of carpets looking beautifully clean - then further persistent beeping arrived, but this time from a flat battery in a carbon monoxide detector with a glued in irreplaceable battery and after it annoyed everyone for a bit, our volunteers Gill and Peter made it their mission to silence it, which they achieved effectively we are pleased to say.

Since the weekend we've also identified a tree that needs to be removed next to our Apple Trees campsite (thanks Darragh) and the first of our tree advisers came to site to take a look for us so that we can schedule the removal of the fallen tree, currently safely taped off, before we welcome campers to the site next year when we open.  Apple Trees hasn't seen a spike in bookings popularity yet, but we're expecting it might at some point as it is one of our lovely enclosed campsites.

The tree-mendous (excuse the pun) part of the day, aside from the tree shenanigans above, was seeing that our google listing has updated so Foxie will now always be able to find his way home (using Google Maps...other providers are available) as we are officially labelled Foxlease Park!

We wrapped up the day with our first on site Trustee meeting this evening in our new, if still a little bit chilly, home, turning our Site Office into a Board Room for the evening.

Final checks on some of the buildings tomorrow and fingers (paws) crossed that The Lodge is nearly at the next stage, Love Foxie x