Crazy, awful dreams last night. I was pretty much wakeful all night, on that brain-active threshold ‘twixt sleep and waking. No idea why – I had a salad sandwich and a cup of tea for my evening meal. Not exactly living on the edge, is it? I’m up early again but tired and grumpy with …
Category archives: Living
Further Dull
Lovely day today – I should be out with my camera. I’m not. The garage is kind of tidied. To the extent that a lot of stuff has been designated as rubbish and hence bonfire fodder and the remainder has been stacked in a tidier fashion, that is. At least there is now space for the …
More dull
Ah well. A good plan does not always come rapidly to fruition. The oil pipe on the old Rayburn is disconnected but we have two hitches with the water supply. Firstly, we cannot drain the system due to the stopcock being too large for the hosepipe. Secondly, we cannot undo the nuts on the pipework …
Dull, dull, dull
I’m sorry. What can I say? It has been a dull week – nothing to talk about at all. My week has mainly been spent in preparing a pint pot to accept a quart of stuff this weekend. Yes, I have been tidying, rationalising, junking stuff, and making space. There is now more visible space …
Topsy Turvy
Life seems to be taking a turn towards madness and mayhem just now. Having elected to take a slow approach to the DIY, suddenly everything seems to be gathering pace! Like Topsy, the job just keeps growing. A late decision to insulate the floors and add heating beneath the slate tiles escalated from an outline …
Hello, stranger
How do. Yes, I’m still here. Want a brief recap? We have begun work on the remodelling of the old part of the house: the partition walls are down, serious woodworm was discovered and it turned out that the floors had been laid more recently than the partition wall was built, so there are gaps …