Entries by ALB1970

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Man wakes up on the sofa in his PJs on a Friday night, sober, with a hot cup of coffee, a plate of chocolate chip cookies, watching Beverly Hills Cop while his wife is out on the lash with friends, and wonders what the hell happened in the last 14 years….?

What a day

Reagan text the Family WhatsApp group from school to let us know she had attained the highest test score in the whole of year 8 in RE, which blows me away she makes me proud and really is doing fantastic at school. Mommy informed me that she had purchased plane tickets to go ‘home’ something […]

The Bills

Playing the Boars Head over last couple of years has been a strange affair after a home game refereeing decision I made did not go their way and the Bills brothers really vented their anger towards me. Unfortunately this has resulted in quite a bit of tension between them and me especially Les who can […]

Parent fail (Part 27598)

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 […]

Days like these

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 […]

Jesus the Shrimp

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 […]

The Broncos 2022-23

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 […]

Practice makes nearly perfect!

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 […]

Dis-Jointed

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 […]

Door Tourettes!

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 […]