With my cold finally in retreat I’ve been feeling a lot better so was intending to nip up to the Guide Hut today to mow the grass and get ready for the District Camp Fire which is on tomorrow evening. Instead I spent a lot of the day finishing off re-reading a series of books … More Too much reading is bad for you!
You probably are aware that Xmas will be here in just a few short weeks… if not you must be living under a rock! So are we ready? No we are not. As usual all is chaos here. Financially we’re trying to assess the damage the recession is having on our outgoings and come to … More Xmas is coming
We’re a scruffy bunch here sometimes. For example, I like a bit of ‘wildness’ in the garden and so apart from throwing handfuls of slug pellets out now and then I tend not to do much in the way of pest control. Likewise I do *very* little pruning in some areas. Once such area is … More They're coming!!
So, the Strimmer (whipper snipper, brush cutter… whatever) is in for repair. At the back of the garage buried under tons of junk is… wait for it… a *spare* Strimmer. This is an electric thing made by Arlec Industries that I’d bought when the last one we had (a Ryobi) gave up the ghost. It … More Artec, Artec, all fall down
Last Xmas the daughter and son-in-law (plus kids) were here for a few weeks… not long enough really but that’s another story, but one of Mark’s best features (apart from really being good for the daughter) is how hard he works. Even on holiday it was hard to keep him still! 🙂 Something he did … More Last Xmas he took it apart…
Out in the garden last summer the air was green with these little bugs. They are around a centimetre long at their largest and seemed to be congregating from choice over the orange tree. Clearly odd little sap sucking leaf hoppers of some sort but my dilemma is what to do with them? If I … More Something's bugging me!
After an extended absense during which a large portion of the house was cleared of accumulated junk… as per pervious messages… I think it’s safe to come back. Loads has happened in the world that’s worthy of comment but I don’t think I’ll be covering much of it, there’s been enough said as it is. … More We seem to be back!
A couple of months ago I decided it was about time I took our house ‘in hand’. I’ve done next to no real maintenance in years and my growing collection of the bloody useless has slowly mounted up until I couldn’t see the floor for the mess! Since it’s Spring over here I figured this … More Spring into cleaning!
As you may recall I’ve been wittering on periodically about the breakdown of all our aircon machinery in both car and house. You might also recall that I took the car to the service station to be sorted out and was told the system simply needed re-gassing to ‘fix’ it, and also had arranged for … More Don't mention the air-conditioning!
Daylight saving started here yesterday… and ended in the UK (or is it the other way around?) anyway the clocks went forward by one hour. Went forwards everywhere… except that is, at our house. Normally I’m up coughing with the sparrows resetting all the timepieces around the house to the correct time which as you … More The perils of daylight saving.
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