Its a motor racing day today! Moto GP from Silverstone and then Indycar final race of the season. Tomorrow we’ll be going out somewhere……

Well that’s been a busy day! Yesterday we had the insurance company send out a team to investigate a water leak underground from the mains water supply somewhere on the the property. Turns out that its under the tarmaced drive so a temporary pipe was put in over the top to bypass the broken one. Read more about Saturday 29th August 2015[…]

Well the tiling’s almost completed. The floors all done even though I could have done with one more tile. I had to use a coupe of off cuts under the washing machine to fill the gap. If anyone wants to pull it out, point to the floor and call me a rank amateur, we can Read more about Wednesday 26th August 2015[…]

First day of my two week holiday!   .. well sort of…. when I say ‘holiday’ what I  really mean is two weeks  of working like a dog around the house wishing I was back at work where at least I was getting paid. My nephew came down and stayed over on Saturday so that Read more about Monday July 27th 2015[…]

Started clearing my desk and calendar for the my two weeks off starting on Monday. There’s something quite theraputic about going through the endless list of upcoming meetings and declining all the tedious stuff I usually can’t get out of. Watched the Tour de France, seems a lot more civilised when they close the roads Read more about Thursday 23rd July 2015[…]

Today is Monday, or as it’s known at work, multiple meeting Monday. Its got so bad that I didn’t even get a brew inside me until after 11:00 by which time i’d got very stressed, barked at several people, set fire to a portacabin and in a fit of pique, napalmed Cheltenham… See, this is Read more about Monday 20th July 2015[…]

Very hot today, went down to Andover garden centre with wife, father in law and his partner. Had breakfast and bought some plants. Got home and wife said that we needed some soil…. fairly sure we’re just been there but never mind, back in the car again, damn global warming, and back to Homebase. Four Read more about Sunday 19th July 2015[…]

Spent all day helping my mate Craig move all the stuff out of his house in Farnborough, this included two motorcycles that had not turned a wheel in ten years. Tyres flat, chain rusted and wheel bearings seized. Lots of swearing and sweating, just whats needed in 26 deg C of heat. Lobbed everything in Read more about Saturday 18th July 2015[…]