Both kids in the car, I’m driving home and Lincoln says put some Queen on Dad! OK Google play Queen “Only Spotify premium subscribers can choose specific songs so here is something from queen radio I found” ‘Queen Bitch’ starts to play… Reagan looks at the display and says “I didn’t know David Bowie was […]
January is dark wet and dreary, all the twinkly lights have been switched off and now the focus is on spring but that isn’t for another few months yet. I lay in bed listening to the rain hitting the window and the wind blowing, the thought of walking fills me with dread on days like […]
Reagan decided she wants her fishtank back in her bedroom and wanted to clean it out before it went back up two flights of stairs. Now she had not cleaned her tank out for 12 months leaving it up to Mommy who struggled with the stairs carrying each time so eventually just left it in […]
Tonight sees the Denver Broncos close out their 2022 season with a meaningless game for both teams against LA Chargers at Mile High. Neither team benefits from winning or losing but for the home team surely pride should be enough to motivate and earning your jobs next season! When I went to bed on 12th […]
Practicing using the tools I have (nothing worse than someone with all the gear and no idea) anyway I managed to create a cross today using skills I will need to create handmade windows for me shed. A router table would have improved things, it took a lot of setting up and there is some […]
After a week back at work, I had looked forward to getting back into my shed and do some more woodwork and although I had to take Lincoln to gymnastics I was going to spend the rest of it practising creating lap joints. I did pretty well managing 4 joints that were so tight they […]
Yes, I shout DOOR a lot when it’s cold outside and someone opens the door and I especially shout it if someone leaves a door open. It comes from when I first started work at Saxon Sanbec in 1986, there was a huge sliding door used to get materials in and products out, there was […]
I finally finished reading Jinxed, Del Greening’s autobiography the guitarist and one of the founding members of my favourite band Peter and the Test Tube Babies, I had devoured all but the last two chapters and it’s taken a few weeks to pick the book back up. It like a lot of autobiographies I have […]
An email entitled ‘Celebrating our fabulous colleagues – star nominations update. Take a few minutes to have a read.’ landed in my inbox and normally I don’t have time to read that kind of nonsense but for some reason, I clicked on it and began to read. Basically it was employees nominating colleagues because they […]
Yep today was the day we all went back to work and by 08:30 all the relaxation and calm feelings I had experienced for the last couple of weeks were all gone as I ranted at the amount of work piled up in my inbox. Everyone thinking their issue is the most important and most […]