Combing the depths This week: Laying the floor continues; Combing the depths; An unstable electric supply; The natural world is awakening; I have had another week working on laying the hardwood floor in the hall. But what is obvious as … Read More
Reversing my tongue This week: Laying hardwood flooring; Blind nailing; Reversing my tongue; Just plain awful engineering; It’s Saturday again! It really doesn’t seem a week since I was in front of my screens, selecting the photos for last week’s … Read More
Another career choice gone This week: Another career choice gone west; More holes: Polytunnel time; ; Cold is a relative concept. It has been cold this week, the coldest week of the winter. However I’m talking about southern Mediterranean cold, … Read More
Sime lost keys This week: January in the garden; Some lost keys; Dealing with “Wattle walls”; A solution for the problem; It is 12th night, so I have carefully removed the Christmas lights and packed them away in the box, … Read More
Let’s look forward This week: Looking back – the weather year; Just a little work; Let’s look forward; Well, we’ve made it all the way to week 52! I can’t believe that it has been an entire year and I … Read More
I need Mr Spock This week: I need Mr Spock; Cutting wood; Shopping trips; Painting the Konoba ceiling; The Northern Winter Solstice; Writing this as dusk falls outside, with my wood stove burbling away in the dining room, as it … Read More
Hanging Curtains This week: Hanging curtains; Winter fruits; Lemons for life; We are on the downhill run to Christmas. Monday week is Christmas Day, but some how, it just doesn’t feel all that “Christmassy” yet. In the shops the Christmas … Read More
Heavy Rain This week: Heavy rain; Indoor jobs; Seed collecting; Across much of Europe the temperatures are lower than usual and there has been some significant snowfalls. In Germany the cold and snow brought chaos. The trains, planes and autobahns … Read More
First snow of winter This week: Split in winter; Plasterboarding; Exploring my new Konoba; ; It’s been another of those weeks… I have been busy, but really have little to show for it. On Sunday I bottled 10 kilogrammes of … Read More
Just a minor crash This week: Just three cables; Just a minor crash; A bit of caddying; The place next door; The mosquitoes are still flying. However that said, they are flying more slowly, and there are fewer of them. … Read More