Spent all day creating the frame for the base of my shed and managed to complete it and I am able to see the scale of the building and its potential. I can also workout the materials for the next stage and the best way to spend my money
Wood delivered this morning had to work all day staring out the window wishing I was out there fettling, it got 5pm and it rained spoiling my first opportunity so decided best to leave it until tomorrow. Hoping for a dry day.
I have been laying out the design of “my shed” for weeks now and I really love designing it and often having to alter it to suit building materials mostly and watching things fall into place eventually and a couple of days ago something happened that was like a light bulb coming on and everything […]
Jamie has bought a new carpet for our bedroom and a new bed, the carpet is being fitted tomorrow so we have had to empty the bedroom tonight in readiness the old carpet and the bottom of the bed have both been taken to the tip so we have a mattress on a bare floor […]
I have been working out what wood to buy and from where for days if not weeks because wood is very expensive right now but today I just thought get aome bought and get started and I can work out the next batch while I work. Howarth Timber in Northwich seemed the best place to […]
When I was at school I played darts and I was always good at simple maths adding, subtracting, multiply and dividing because to play darts you need to do all three hahaha in your head quickly. To play in a pub you have to mark the board (do the scoring on a blackboard) before you […]
So picture the scene an angry swan, a crying boy, a ball on the canal, a barking dog and did I mention a lovely night for a walk? As we watched helplessly as Lincolns football floated off, the angry swan attacked the ball flicking it towards the bank, as I grabbed the ball the swan […]
When I am raging mad spit comes out of my mouth, I wish it was fire because that’s what should be coming out. This morning for the millionth time I asked Reagan to do something and yet against gave me attitude and told me “I will” but added that she was doing something at that […]
Reagan came home and said “Lincolns crying, he’s damaged a parked car on the other side of the bridge and they won’t let him go!” Well let me try to describe the next two minutes Mommy dashed upstairs and changed out of casual clothes she’d been wearing laying in the sun, into t-shirt jeans and […]
182 days ago I sat with Jamie I was drunk and I had been drinking regularly for years and I had reached a point where I wanted to take control of it. COVID and lockdown hadn’t helped but it was just an excuse to drink every single day, I had been doing that, way before […]