Quiet this morning with nothing to write about… or right about… I say that cos I’ve nothing left to say… gawd I *must* be bored 🙂 I have a few things to do. Gardening front and back. Cleaning top and bottom. Well ok I suppose I have an enormous amount to do… but I’m a … More Tum te dum te dum

About eighteen months or so ago we had a foster child and her sister stay with us. The older girl made a friend at her school and when the girl moved on the friend carried on coming down to play with my eldest daughter despite being 3 years older than her… aged around 11. Time … More Strange how kids change.

I spent a large chunk of last night munching on grapes… bloody fabulous ones too! Imported from the USA… small, red and seedless. I think the variety was Red Flame (?). I must have eaten nearly a kilo… and at $15 a kilo it wasn’t a cheap snack by any means. Most of me figured … More A little more diet stuff

The diet isn’t 100% effective yet… I’m still trying to cut everything out but it isn’t so easy 🙂 On a theme… I’m sure some of the problems are caused by a food intolerance. Yes last time the pneumonia caused a lot of problems and I ended up eating crap again, but I was already … More The diet.

Ouch… ! Went to the docs a week or so ago with the wife. While she was there I asked him about some itchy pimples I had on my shoulder. Aha… says he… shingles! Weird, thinks I… doesn’t shingles cover the stomach, chest and back? Apparantly not… well not always anyway. Seems the virus travels … More Shingle Bells

Despite my best intentions… I did indeed pick up the wrong tray of seedlings from the garden centre… so my wigwam is going to be covering the dwarf french bean instead of the climbers. Erk… methinks a quick visit to the garden centre will solve the problem… *if* they have climbers there… else it’ll be … More Oh bugger.

I posted this on the forum but thought it could be usefully posted here too… I was going through a bit of a bad patch when I was sixteen and after an abortive attempt to move to London I had decided enough was enough and I headed for home back in Wales. I’d counted my … More Just a little story.

Neat site this. Has some really cool stickers for your wheelie bin to liven up those miserable lines of green or yellow bins. You can find them at Wheelie Bin Art. It’s a UK company but they happily post overseas.

I spent some of this arvo creating one of those really useful little art works that repays your efforts in kind. What is it?… you say… and I answers… I planted meself a bean tub! At the front of the house we have a circular concrete sewer access manhole cover thing… which isn’t particularly aesthetically … More Beanz meanz tubz

Well ok it isn’t snowing here, but it *is* snowing further south! Seems a cold snap has pushed its way onshore and temperatures have dropped, To give some indication of how it feels… earlier today the temperature in the garden was 33ºC and currently it’s 14ºC… a drop of 19 degrees! No doubt it feels … More Oh joy… it's snowing.