The rain was not as bad as I expected today but it was enough to scupper my progress I wanted to crack on with cladding me shed but as stead rain started to fall it just got frustratingly more wet and muddy. I retreated to the inside and cut the off cut from what I […]
Rain rain and more rain forecast for this weekend following a week of rain means it could be w a wash out over the next couple of days with lots planned including installing cladding to the sides of my shed. Even if it does stay fine for a few hours the amount of water that […]
YouTube is so useful no matter what you need to know whether it be car maintenance, how to groom a horse or solve a Ribiks cube anything is on there and I have found myself watching wood shop videos and how best to organise a small space. It’s a shame Lesley is going away for […]
Where do I start with what is going on in my life right now when I am sat downstairs having just played really well at pool and managed to draw a match against atop side from 5 3 down feels really good. I spoke to Lesley tonight and offered her £1000 to take whatever I […]
Do I spend a Grand on tools I might never use, or tools I don’t have room for, Jamie has no idea what I am buying but noticed a glint in my eye and enthusiasm in my voice when I was telling her about bobbin disk and belt sanders router tables drill presses and Forstner […]
Sometimes all the planets align and everything is perfect but most of the time when planets get close to aligning I am doing something else and don’t notice… What if they’re aligning right now and I am actually staring at those stars? First round of redundancies were announced at work today and although I was […]
After a whole week off work, pottering in the garden and working on me shed has moved the whole project on so much with the interior now fully panelled out, and the guttering attached. The rainwater now needs to be temporarily managed until I can get a pipe running the full length of Jamie’s office […]
We did Halloween stuff this afternoon supporting a freind who runs Greg’s in Crewe and really promoting the season supplying pumpkins for kids to carve, we were worried Reagan and Lincoln might have been too old but oh no… They loved it and it was good to catch up with Helena and hear her story […]
Facininating watching Reagan tonight open her very first CD and how amazed she was when she took the cellophane of and opened the box. No idea how to take the CD out so proceeded to take out the cover and was blown away discovering a lyric sheet and a poster, just things we 30 years […]
A lay in till 9am, Billy, then breakfast followed by all day in the garden panelling out the rest of my shed…love it! I could have easily spent £60+ on plywood but decided to see what I already had and either made it good with me table and mitre saws or chopped it up to […]