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Bank Holiday Monday 1 May 2023 May. It’s May. How the [expletive] is it May already? It’s shortly before 08:00. Mitch is already outside and on the roof of the shed he’s constructing around the frame of what was once, apparently, a pig shed. Chris is in the shower, which will have been scalding. We […]

Saturday 29 April 2023 It’s before 08:00 and we seem to be ready for our bank holiday weekend visitors, Fiona and Andy. They left Folkestone at 06:15 and have already encountered an unplanned chunk of motorway closure. Having visitors makes us get on with things. We had a flurry of activity yesterday afternoon, putting up

Friday 28 April 2023 I set off for Edinburgh yesterday at 08:10, back home again at 18:30. I had needed to do a food shop so could have just gone to Galashiels, but the allure of a long city walk and another Edinburgh-explore easily won. I also had an idea that I might find a

Wednesday 26 April 2023 It’s the second consecutive day of frost. Fortunately, when I needed a reliable and continuous WiFi connection for work yesterday, the silicon glue connecting our exposed WiFi cable coped fine with the frost and hail. There was hail in the gutter this morning and apparently it’s minus 2°C; sub-[expletive]-zero. Frost barely

Monday 24 April 2023 I finished painting the area we keep referring to, slightly pretentiously-sounding, as the Indian room. Two walls are now four coats of Fish Tale, a teal Valspar paint from B&Q. Unbelievably, it has come out looking exactly the colour I’d hoped for. I also did two coats of Petticoat Pink around

Sunday 23 April 2023 Today is overachievement day as Mitch is here for the day. Today, he will largely be constructing a shed around the frame of an old pig shed and there might be some lawn mowing with a ride-on mower, which sadly isn’t ours. I might actually enjoy mowing if I had a