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
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