Very, very smelly This week: Breaking stone; A complete manual failure; Friday finish and clean up; Very, very smelly; We are in the middle of the spring weather tussle, when the warmer weather moving up from the south is trying … Read More
Fire casts a long shadow This week: Fire casts a long shadow; Making plates; Decisions, decisions…; Pineapple trees; Arbitrary lines; Last job in the hall; Once again it is Saturday and I have NO idea where the week just past … Read More
They fit where they touch This week: Big boy’s toys; Starting on the jungle; They fit where they touch; Geometry, kinaesthesia and VARK; Trouble with the rhombus; Once again we are in that boundary period between seasons. This past week … Read More
Make do and mend This week: Make do and mend; More repairs; Garden tales; Dol has been bathed in spring sunshine for most of the week. Spring is very definitely here, even as the last tentacles of winter cling on … Read More
Tripping the light fantastic This week: Fire flies and Glow worms; Tripping the light fantastic; Feeling sad; We have enjoyed another fantastic week of weather, with clear blue skies on several days and with them, warm spring sunshine. That said, … Read More
Planting gets underway This week: Finishing the hall floor; The next part of the project; The last cuts; Planting gets underway; We have had another sunny week here in Dol, however with the clear skies at night, temperatures have dropped … Read More
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