Axe and pallet with Charlotte

I hadn't seen Charlotte in a while, so I dropped her a message to see if she was up for having a cup of tea or coffee or something. And she did! So I biked up the hill on a rainy Saturday. And I had finally remembered that ages ago, I had offered to sharpen her axe. I had mentioned my activities with firewood, and she had complained that she had a blunt axe and not the means to do something about it. I clearly did! So I had brought my multitool up. But first we had that cup of tea.

After a lot of talk I reminded her of the axe. She went to get it, while I got my multitool out. But then I stopped. It was European multitool! And I had forgot to bring an adapter plug. I couldn't plug it into her sockets. Bad organisation.

My European multitool

She suggested we just both go to my place,  where I have plenty of these plugs. And so we did! And the axe was sharpened. So now she can tackle her firewood again.

We clearly had been talking about firewood anyway, so I had mentioned the pallets, and she said that if there were more on offer, she was interested. Two days later indeed another one appeared! So I had alerted her to that. And that very day she came down to take it apart. It's not something you can fit into a modest car intact. And when she was done with the pallet, and I was done with what I had been doing, we had a nice drink in the garden.

I didn't think one thing would lead to another like that, but it was nice to combine the useful with the enjoyable! And we are clearly both getting ready for another winter, where all that wood-related activity will facilitate woodfire enjoyment. Ideally, we would meet for climbing, but this will do as well…