Well, for an hour.
It’s a white January!
Turning berries into jam
Last year I filled multiple delivery food containers with blackberries and strawberries from the garden, and blackberries from the massive plants that are along the road past the house. Some have been used for blackberry and apple (Bramley) crumble, and
Replacing the boiler
At the end of December, the soil stack at the back of the house clogged again. It turns out whoever installed the guttering down pipe did a shit job (pardon the pun), because they never flush-trimmed the down pipe where
A pre-lockdown trip
Went for a jaunt in the mountains, looked at a lake, had lunch by Threecastles, and home before dark.
Renovating the studio: part 10
Today saw the roof plywood finished off, and a polythene sheet tacked down until mid-January. All the building supplies have been stored in the newly constructed building, the window is boarded up, and the door is in place. The yard
Renovating the studio: part 9
The rafters went on today, and some of the plywood to form the basis of the roof. The rear concrete is still deemed too green to remove the shutters. The wrong fascias showed up on the truck yesterday, and had