Having given Leslie the first installment of yhe promised £1000 five days ago I was desperate for Saturday to arrive so I could get my hands on the tools the money was for. I was careful to make sure Leslie was OK still with what I was about to because the last thing I wanted […]
After work tonight we said we would look after the Pastor’s son Lucas and spent the first part if the evening in the kitchen while three children occupied our living room playing video games. It got better after we finished our 8oz fillet mignon washed down with a drop of red, because we all played […]
I looked down the garden tonight and the rain was pouring onto the mud I created at the weekend in front of my shed and it occurred to me that even though I love the space, the garden loses its appeal when the weather becomes incessantly inclement and I don’t go and play darts or […]
I felt excitement today as I sat at work sort of dreaming about what could be, and if it was possible to make stuff for a living? I paid a lot of money last night for a dream(?) something that makes no sense yet also makes perfect sense… I have already let go of my […]
For some reason tonight teatime spiralled into to chaos with everyone crying with laughter after Lincoln told a story about a girl at school nearly choking to death on gum in class followed by Reagan suggesting that I was alive in 1925 Three family members rolled about the kitchen, unable to breathe, a bit like […]
£1000 is a lot of money that I could do without spending, all at once, but I know it is going to fast track me to a workshop kitted out with most of the equipment I would have spent the next few years collecting for twice if not three times the amount? It feels so […]
It has never been about the building itself but about the challenge of creating it and from the foundations to the finished product doing it all myself, and this weekend I finally got a glimpse of what my shed is going to look like and I found myself constantly looking at it and continuing after […]
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 […]