End of an era- Holland Brand Workshop is nearly gone.

Its a beautiful moonlit night here in Happisburgh with the sea lapping against the my cliff and, across the bay, as far as I can see, the sea is high up the sand. 
There have been some changes near the rampin the last few days which I have not followed because my life for the last weeks has been a grind of packing boxes in the workshop and unpacking them at  home, putting up more shelves in between, putting things on ebay, answering emails, eating, snatching some sleep then getting up to get on again.

The workshop is now reduced to piles of all sorts, all over although much has been already taken away. I have taken about 400 used Ferguson spares home with me because I couldn't bear to scrap them. They will go to Cheffin's vintage tractor auction in April. If Atlas the Ferguson Splitter does not sell on ebay I will send that as well. I've been offered silly money but I know its a super bit of kit and I'm not going to give it away.

Too tired to write any more.

Ferguson Workshop Update

Hi! With a sense of shock I find that the last time I did a blog was December LAST YEAR! Unbelievable how time flies. And not just when you are enjoying yourself...

Unless a buyer for Holland Brand Workshop comes forward this business, loved, nursed and supported for quite a lot of years now, will go off the radar.

I offered the business to Jeff who's spent so much time and effort building the business up, the whole thing- lock stock and barrel but he said no every time. Not sure why.

So I am left with a workshop full of Ferguson parts, tools, special; Ferguson tools made by Jeff etc. etc.

I'm really, really sad.  Understandably.

What with my house endangered by a crumbling cliff- ironically not on my land but on the (now) Council owned land next door. 'We want to cease to defend the corner' they said via the Pathfinder Liason committee.
'Why?' I asked a group of Council officers. They looked at each other then one of them said.'To make it easier for people to get round the corner!'  ?????  There's never been a log jam of people , yet. Next time I asked the Coastal engineer 'Why do you want to round off the corner?' . 'His reply was, 'Well, if the corner isn't rounded off it would be pointed'  Even more bizarre...  However, there have been rumours of  a Government? master plan to remove all projections from round the coast of the UK to allow the unimpeded flow of sediment.  If this is a secret plan we SHOULD BE TOLD!

Got to get on now with listing 400+ original Ferguson parts ready for selling.

Catch up from a long while back...

Hi!    Those of you who follow The Engineers highly technical blogs will understand that he just does not have time for any general workshop waffle so I'm having my own blog so I can put in bits of background stuff and will also add my comments on other things like what is happening at Happisburgh and what it felt like with the high tide belting against my cliff leaving me worrying about whether another of the precious 47 feet that stands between my bungalow and the sea was disappearing. (You can of course, also go straight to the Happisburgh web site to get more official comments on whats happening). Also, because I am a compulsive grower of things I will probably make mention of my battle to grow flowers and vegetables in the frequent near gale force winds which beat off the sea straight onto my garden. I will mention cats occasionally but not as often as I would used to have done because I've just lost my beloved Tolly (there's a lovely vid of him for cat lovers) and now only have Socrates (answers to Socky) who is doing his best to be three cats. I've got a series of pics of him going down the cliff onto the beach to stalk a huge bird which just waited until he was a few feet away then upped and settled twenty yards further on.

Got to go now because I'm just off into Norwich to look after my youngest grand- daughter, Tabitha, while her mother is at my eldest grand-daughter's open evening at school..