Entries by ALB1970

Plywood grades

Having worked in my shed all weekend using the plywood I bought a few weeks ago it became apparent to me that the quality was not as good as I would have liked for my bench and something I need to educate myself on because in my opinion I have done a reay good job […]

Wet Saturday

The rain just lately has been non stop, well thats how its felt and when I got up I was hoping to be able to walk Billy and get some wood cutting done in the garden but one look out of the window to see it pouring with rain yet again dashed that idea. Although […]

Resignation accepted

Today, after swapping our Internet router yesterday I was experiencing low speeds which was annoying because the Draytek 2865 is a far superior unit the the proprietary the one BT supplied. I spent the morning troubleshooting why we were barely getting 7 or 8 Mb and not the 140+ we should be getting but became […]

An extra day

February the 29th a leap year gives me an extra day to love my family and for me that means a lot. I want as many opportunities to be there for all of them as possible, I just spoke to Jamie who was laying in bed in a hotel in london after going out to […]

The first 15 Years

We had to be apart for our 15th anniversary for one reason an invitation to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament for a party that I would not have allowed Jamie to miss even on an important date in our calendar. An opportunity like this may never happen again, we will be together tomorrow and […]

Could we make you stay?

Got a call from my boss late afternoon to say they were sorry to recieve my letter of resignation and is there anything they could say to change my descision, which I replied straightaway with the fact that it had been coming for a while and I felt it was time to move on so […]

Offer accepted

Can we talk at 1:30…yeh OK Do you want this job or what? Yeh I think I do! I’ll send you something to sign OK Er yeh Was basically (paraphrased) how my day went, I got offered a job that in all honesty I have been sold all along and I sort said fuck it […]

Bench press

Spent a good portion of my Sunday cracking on with my bench and managed to get main top work space attached and the bottom shelf secured too and left it with the saw shelf ready to set up but time and inclination got the better of me and ended the day at the pub with […]

I didn’t think it would be her!

Although I wanted to spend all day in me shed Jamie asked if I wanted to do our walk after dropping Reagan off at horse riding, and that was a no-brainer. I love spending time alone with my best mate! When we picked up Reagan she was not waiting for us so Mommy went in […]

Friday feelings

It was good to make it to Friday and k ow the weekend is about to begin after a long and eventful week but after a busy day I started feeling ill….the feeling was the same as Jamie had been complaining about the last couple of days. I don’t mind being ill (I don’t want […]