The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: home
House And Garden, An Update
We move on. Rooms are plastered, some paint is up. Floors are going in. Outside the pergola has experienced a before and after. A new brick pillared structure will replace it to support several solar panels. And a new small … Continue reading
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A Bit More Of That Reno
Plastering upstairs is done. A white coat covers several rooms and doors are on. On the ground floor the insulation under floor is done in two out of four rooms and plastering is underway. The kitchen remains a mess but … Continue reading
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End Of Year House And Garden
Ok, so the house has turned a corner and it’s moving into the ‘oh exciting’ phase from the ‘what have we done?’ Phase. The top two floors are now wired, mostly plumbed and plastered. The new stairs to the attic … Continue reading
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That Building Project
A few weeks on and where are we? At roof level we have some solar panels. Six of the eventual twelve. The second six will sit atop a rebuilt pergola in due course. Inside, the utility is like a number … Continue reading
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A Bit Of The Garden
Being absent does have its downsides, one of which we can’t get in the garden as much as we’d like. Still we are lucky that our rather daft gardener, the Lad is happy to keep visiting and the builders are … Continue reading
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That Building Project
To the house to meet with the contractor and architect. Holding one’s breath for two hours isn’t wise, so we practised mindful breathing. All that did was make me fart and Dog howl like a banshee. We need to be … Continue reading
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Home Redux
The five stages of holiday grief, this seemed to follow this pattern: Despair: ‘Why can’t I shut the suitcase? I could on the way here? Anger: ‘I thought you said the taxi was due at nine? We’ll never make it … Continue reading
Posted in dog, holidays, home, Japan, miscellany
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April Flowers #garden
Why do we call someone who’s shy a wallflower? Given the displays abounding this year, they aren’t your usual idea of a shrinking violet… and indeed that’s another that doesn’t make sense. Here are a few of ours from this … Continue reading
I Have Worms!
Pam Lazos wrote recently, here, on the joys of compost which I can echo. It made me, once again, recognise a parental lesson I received from a young age. My parents, specifically my mother recycled, repurposed and upcycled well before … Continue reading
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March Garden
A Few images from the Garden this month; it has been rather splendid… And last year in March? As seeing as today is Mother’s Day in the UK, let me finish with a poem of my father’s. He wrote a … Continue reading
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