First blog post for a while…… Well this is the new and hopefully improved website. I’m much more comfortable with this one as it’s actually doing something specific. Its going to be a showcase (if that’s the right word) of the various cars, bikes and vehicles i’ve owned. Different projects i’ve either done or been Read more about Wednesday 27th March 2019[…]
Not posted for a while, lots been going on. Far too much to mention. In no particular order. Retiled the wetroom floor with a very nice herringbone patterned procelain tile in several differing shades of grey and brown. Went OK. fairly pleased with it. This time it was properly stuck down with a special tile Read more about Tuesday 14th November 2017[…]
Today is the first day of my extended three week and two day Christmas break and frankly, I deserve it……! I’m not back in until the 2nd Jan next year! God knows what sort of mess the place will be in on my return… and if anyone has adjusted my chair or hidden my fountain Read more about Monday 12th December 2016[…]
It’s been a while…… So what been happening? Probably quite a bit and if it wasn’t for this appalling memory some of it might even make it into print…… At work, another FM has decided he can’t stand the heat and has quit the kitchen. So thats another one i’ll have to train up……I think Read more about Monday 21st November 2016[…]
Another lazy day…… Got a call from John Lewis at 07:30 to say that they would be delivering a new mattress and tumble dryer to my mum and dads house in half an hour……. Mum and Dad live 40 miles away…… Jumped in the trusty Freelander and hammered up to Camberley, never once exceeding 70 Read more about Monday 4th July 2016[…]
Lots of work done today. After feasting on a breakfast of berries, yoghurt and walnuts, went out and started in the workshop. Painted all the louvre doors again with a second coat all round. You have no idea how long this takes to do properly……… without drips hanging off the bottom of the slats you Read more about Tuesday 28th June 2016[…]
So whats happened this week…. oh yeah, finally got to vote on the EU and we’re delighted to report that we’re going to have a go at running our own country again. At last ….. couldn’t be happier. Its disppointing to see the amount of vitriol on social media about the result, some hightly intelligent Read more about Saturday 25th June 2016[…]
Well today was going to be one of those ‘do nothing’ days. Yeah right,….. took a look at the porcelain skirting board that’s been lurking in a corner of the kitchen since those nice Italians sent it over from…… Italy. Offered it up to the wall by the side of the kitchen units and came Read more about Saturday 19th December[…]
Tel left behind some DF Greive models that needed finishing as well as an unfinished Airfix kit of a Triumph Herald. I thought that I would finish off what he started and put them in the display case with the rest of the models that he completed. I deliberately did not redo or change anything Read more about Friday 18th December[…]
Well it’s been a while……. Quite a bit has happened since the last posting, the main point being that we lost Tel in September. He’d lived with us in the annex at the Tollgate in Whitchurch for over 10 years and had helped us to renovate the last three houses we owned. Had a good Read more about Wednesday 16th December[…]