The Whitemill, Sandwich

A mixed morning at the mill today, the first thing is to report that the guardrails that we started a couple of weeks ago are now finished...

However, most of this morning was taken up with sorting a theft of heating oil which occurred sometime Thurday night. The tank is a relatively new polyethere, bunded one, & is mounted some five feet off the ground. The thieves had drilled through both inner & outer walls & then presumably drained the contents (approx 200l) into containers. The tank will have to be replaced which, ironically will cost a lot more than they will get for the stolen oil!

We will need to re-think the siting of the replacement tank to make this sort of think more difficult in future...

Honda C90

There are two of these, both later 12v 85cc bikes. The red one is an  '88 electric start & is almost ready for its MOT. The blue one is in daily use, or was, & is a later bike, '99. It's Krys' ride to work, until today, that is, when I noticed that the rear swing arm pivot was quite badly worn, the pivot bolt was difficult to remove, when it finally came out, we saw how badly the hole in the frame had worn. Particularly, on the left side, where it was worn oval... an over-tight chain at some point in the past, perhaps? Not quite sure how we're going to sort that out but I'm sure we'll think of something!

Krys' Garage

Limited progress this afternoon, but at least we managed to do something today, the first time for several weeks... You'll have to look closely, but the cladding either side of the windows was the main achievemnet of the afternoon!
The tractor now runs, but has a hole in the float!

Richborough Power Station demolotion day

After being part of the landscape for half a century, the three cooloing towers & chimney were demolished today. I managed to get a good view...

Krys' tractor

Having wanted one of these since the age of about six! one finally came his way this weekend... a freebe too. So far it turns over on the starter & sparks at the plug.... tomorrow we try a pounds worth of petrol... ok, two pounds worth!







The white Mill Sandwich

This morning, one of the volunteers brought some grain to be ground on a pair of small stones that are usually used to demonstrate the grinding process to school parties... below is the result, a bowlful of whole grain flour... Scroll down to see a video of the process...

Following last Sundays activities, the workshop is much clearer! The weather today, however, suggested an indoor job so we set to work on a job that had been hanging around for quite a while... too long,in fact!

In the workshop, we installed two storage floors at a height of about 7ft from the ground. On one of them we never got round to installing guard rails... until today, that is!

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Yamaha Viragio 535

After a few months sitting around over the winter it was time of an MOT, tax & a ride out, followed by a clean & polish!