Building Regulations
I must admit I already knew this as Alan gave me a ring to confirm it the other night but on getting home this evening I had a letter with a handwritten address. I...
Monthly Archive: February 2014
Laser Thermometer
My favourite tool I’ve bought in ages is my Digi thermometer. I bought this in the frivolous times when I was buying tools just in case I might need them. This tool was bought...
The cold phew the cold
The cold phew the cold. When I first moved in it was mild but the house felt like ice. Someone remarked on me needing an electric blanket and using bubble wrap to insulate drafty...
A day off work to do lots of work
OK a day off to do lots of work. BT Engineer booked in for a morning visit to fix Sky Broadband problem – check. Thermal Store to be delivered on an AM delivery after...
Weekend dead ends
You know when you think you’ve been really busy and you check back and you don’t seem to have done much. Well that was the weekend that was. I’ll hold my hand up to...
Sky Digital Broadband Problems
Another part of living in the country is the appalling broadband service. I think I’ve spent in total around 12 hours plus on the phone getting in touch with Sky, I’ve spent hours listening...
Be careful what ones says!
Be careful what ones says! Well one shouldn’t speak so prematurely should one. On the way home from work on a rather dreary Tuesday evening I had agreed to drop in on Alan the...
Driving in the country
I hinted at it in a previous mail, something about tricked out Landies and Finnish old ladies, but really I think I might have been exaggerating a bit there. There is one pearl of...
Why do I live up here
People ask me why I moved up here. I tell them about the reputation for it being cold and they just shiver and tell me they’d not move somewhere like that. Well to be...
Back breaking work?
Finally got around to finding some time to do some work today. My garden needed work and it was beginning to look a bit, well, untidy. Whenever I’d get home through the night I’d...
