I am here and thriving - but I am in the middle of making the world’s best fruitcake, an intensive 3 days of work, plus a myriad jars of passata, so once I have escaped from the kitchen and had a good night’s sleep to recover, expect an update.

Well, the kitchen is done bar a few small details, and I am going to make you WAIT to see it. It is a mess now as I am moving things back in.

The six weeks went smoothly until the final week when I mentioned to the builder that I could smell gas in the [...]

One of those hard to manage, God knows what I will do with, corners. If you’re lucky they’re tucked away in an unseen spot behind the garage/garden shed and no one ever sees them.

Unfortunately mine is right by my front door. Actually, it is a strip of land rather than a corner, about 2 metres [...]

Every spring it happens - the wind arrives. It has coincided with the warmest day of the season today, so it has been truly hateful outside. It was so bad that mid-morning I couldn’t even go outside as it was impossible to walk in the gale.

It has moderated a little now and I have spent [...]

Some devious sod really wants to sell both viagra and clomid here (I have no idea what clomid is - I might go and look it up, it sounds good) so I have added a little application to the site which requires anyone leaving a comment to solve a simple maths question to prove they [...]