I guess English isn't your strong subject either.
What have you been doing today?
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A pleasant couple of hours over the allotment this afternoon. Fixed a couple of leaking water butts, did a bit more precision weeding and replaced some of the struggling young carrots and parsnips with the first reserves from the polytunnel. I've chucked the last of my reserve seedlings into the compost bin as they are all getting a bit leggy now. What’s in the ground now will have to survive or die. I will be digging up my Charlotte salad potatoes in the next week or so and that bed can be replanted with Butternut Squash and beetroot. I’m growing some extra tomatoes and possibly some cucumbers in the polytunnel to see how they go. If they go well, I’ll be getting a greenhouse to extend my growing season. I think this is going to be the best cropping year in my allotment tenancy so far.
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Snagging, snagging and more snagging. I now have a complete working knowledge of the difference between a brush hand and a professional painter...
Personal challenge, mental stimulation? Because I want to? To see if I can?
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After ten weeks of scraping, swearing, sanding, swearing, smoothing, cursing, and varnishing i'm ready to wax-on and consider the bathroom door - done. It's ruined my hands and my wrists are in bits. I've gone through a can of deep freeze and a tube of voltarol...but by the beard of Beelzebub's dog; it's was worth it.
A job like that reminds me why i do-it-myself: those all-too-brief moments when the finishing touches are done and you can stand back to admire the shine, before entropy cracks its knuckles and starts to work over the wood.
I suppose in future, some putz will smother it in white paint but i can enjoy it while it lasts.
A job like that reminds me why i do-it-myself: those all-too-brief moments when the finishing touches are done and you can stand back to admire the shine, before entropy cracks its knuckles and starts to work over the wood.
I suppose in future, some putz will smother it in white paint but i can enjoy it while it lasts.
Today we are celebrating Susie reaching the big one-O! She's all excited, I can tell and she pestered me to help her make a card and WhatsApp it to her sister. Kids eh!
Shouldn't it say 'Susie 3'......?
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Shh. She doesn't know about the other two.
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Today I called upon t'young lad who is slowly becoming my favourite tenant.
I took a gamble in letting him a ramshackle (but water tight) unit to start a motorcycle breakers business.
His business is BOOMING, he's working 6.5 15hr days a week & posting off 30-40 parcels a day.
I chuffin love it when a plan comes together
I took a gamble in letting him a ramshackle (but water tight) unit to start a motorcycle breakers business.
His business is BOOMING, he's working 6.5 15hr days a week & posting off 30-40 parcels a day.
I chuffin love it when a plan comes together
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I'm in Aldeburgh with my mate and our daughters .. Not seen Notch yet.. well I don't think so.
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Traipsed up and down Hornchurch High Street today going into charity shops trying to donate a couple of items. A BT 3 piece cordless phone set. Still had the box and instructions and a Bose iPhone dock with remote control. Not one charity shop would take electrical items! Anyway, I went to the St Francis hospital shop - they sell just furniture - and they gratefully took them saying they could be sold in their Romford branch where they have a bloke that tests all electrical stuff for safety before selling it.
Took the dog for a walk in a wood near me where she had a swim in the stream. She just loves the water and even though we hadn’t been to that woods for a while, as soon as we got near to the stream she took off and went straight in.
On the way back from there I passed a house that had a pile of rubble outside - the remnants of a patio. I need some patio slabs for the allotment to make a small patio outside our shed and to use as a base so I knocked and ask if I could take some. I was told to take whatever I wanted as it was all going. They were the 450mm patio slabs. It was less than 5 minutes from my allotment so I made 4 trips in the car and ended up with…..77 of 'em! Result - or possibly karma for me giving stuff away earlier in the day? Whatever, I’m chuffed with my free slabs.
Edit: Blimey - I’ve just looked online and they’re over a fiver a slab!
Took the dog for a walk in a wood near me where she had a swim in the stream. She just loves the water and even though we hadn’t been to that woods for a while, as soon as we got near to the stream she took off and went straight in.
On the way back from there I passed a house that had a pile of rubble outside - the remnants of a patio. I need some patio slabs for the allotment to make a small patio outside our shed and to use as a base so I knocked and ask if I could take some. I was told to take whatever I wanted as it was all going. They were the 450mm patio slabs. It was less than 5 minutes from my allotment so I made 4 trips in the car and ended up with…..77 of 'em! Result - or possibly karma for me giving stuff away earlier in the day? Whatever, I’m chuffed with my free slabs.
Edit: Blimey - I’ve just looked online and they’re over a fiver a slab!
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Today - asleep mostly. The pattern has been that a day of activity wipes me out for a couple of days. Not sure why, just age I guess. Monday I bought a house (put it in a thread about Spammy which got deleted?). Found it rather wearing.
If I go to bed at a normal time I wake up at 2 or 3 , for an unpleasant night.
If I go to bed at a normal time I wake up at 2 or 3 , for an unpleasant night.
Today we went to Fingringhoe as they were having a few things going on to raise money for local charities. Met up with son, daughter in law, grandson and the other grandparents. Susie was flying the flag with her Union Jack bandana.
We saw an old plane fly over, probably on its way to the royal fly-past.
But the real bonus for me was when I helped an old lady out of the local church. I didn’t realise who it was until she jumped in a limo and was driven away.
We saw an old plane fly over, probably on its way to the royal fly-past.
But the real bonus for me was when I helped an old lady out of the local church. I didn’t realise who it was until she jumped in a limo and was driven away.
What's the Queen doing with a cut out of Mottie.........
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