WEED!

We made our crowd-funding target!! In fact we smashed it, reaching a grand total of £2845! Thank you immensely for your wonderful support and contributions…we feel totally overwhelmed and humbled by your generosity and it is because of you all that we can now get cracking on smashing this weed!

So…funds have been released! Hurrah! So we’ve bought the engine, we’ve bought the wood and now we need to build it. I say we, the very lovely Rice is actually going to build it (I don't think anyone would go in a boat made by me! :s), so we’re just waiting for the wood to be delivered from Sandakan before he can start.

In the meantime we’ve been busy little bees. We’ve planted everyone’s trees in the reforestation site (and we’ve had three days of rain to make them feel welcome…hurrah!), and Bro and I have been working like dogs on the lake. We’ve been out there in the super-hot sun, in torrential rain and in crazy thunder storms. We’ve sweated, we’ve got sunburnt, we’ve been soaked through to the bone, but we’ve almost got the weed in the South end contained to a point where we can start using the new boat on it with a vengeance as soon as it’s finished. Phew! I dream about the weed, all I think about is the weed and I swear I see bloody weed when I shut my eyelids!!