Didn’t do a great deal today after yesterday’s roofing exertion, which I am pretty proud of if I do say so myself. So today was declared a thinking day sat in the garden looking at my shed and working out what the next stage is going to be. I want to get the rear wall clad and the guttering installed because once both are done I can forget about it, because it will be “no maintenance” but I can’t manage just a bit of rain water without getting it to a grid or I am asking for trouble. So I would have to clad the rear wall fit the guttering and fit a pipe the full length of Jamie’s shed and put a junction allowing it to drain into one of her downpipes. Not sure how much cladding costs and being a Bank Holiday weekend will need to wait until Tuesday to call some companies for quotes. Floplast guttering I could get tomorrow if I wanted to to get started?

All things are going through me head and I will sort it out and the next stage will get boughta and sone but it just takes time to work out and once it has I’ll be off again, and I can’t wait because I’m loving this project and seeing it all come together.

I needed to stop thinking about it for a while to clear my thoughts so we went on a family walk down the canal and then past the tyre swing and it was a good walk and did exactly what I wanted it to do, now I am back in the garden weighing things up again!

Made a start on adding shingles to my shed today  it was a learning curve but I quickly sussed it out and was off and running and hopefully I can get it finished over this weekend…

I always lose my get up and go when Jamie is not here, I seem to have no drive no one to impress? Ww dropped her off at the train station earlier came home the kids cooked their own tea I washed up brewed up and now I think I am going to bed, watch TV and tomorrow will be another day.

So after our final camping trip of the summer we stopped off at Sally’s cabin to wish her a happy birthday for yesterday and to meet Geoff.

Having managed to pack up the camp in dry sunny conditions for once my state of mind was very good resigned to heading away from home after a camping trip already I just drove and we will get home when we get home.

It was great to get to the cabin because in all honesty I was hungry thirsty and needed the loo which were all taken care of with a bacon butty a cup of coffee and the latter, Geoff arrived and he was a really nice bloke and we bonded over sports but soon enough it was time to leave but not before a skipping rope appeared and I was asked to jump rope for the first-time in 40 years

To everyone’s surprise I could still do it and even showed the kids how to do it like a champ hahaha

Anyway, home now and well on the way to getting everything tidied away with a phone full of memories to remember anther great camping trip by….

Sat in the porch after day out in Porthmadog where we had Chippy dinner then coffee while kids threw money at the arcade, before crabbing fron the dock side followed lastly by a Tesco essentials shop on the way back to camp, I thought about the worst thing about camping which in my opinion is not being able to stop camping for a while to regroup.

The wind has battered our tent relentlessly since we arrived and although we have had to do some guy rope resets and ground peg upgrades plus one air pole repressurise the tent is faring very well against the elements but me on the other hand struggle without respite.