So it’s all down to finishing off a pitch pine floor, hours of tonguing and grooving, weeks working on the sub-floor too. It’s pretty freezing up here in the hills, the radiators were now fitted in in the family room but that was it for the ground floor, no other radiator blessed...

Two weeks and a handful of days to work on the house over My Christmas Holiday, minus around six days for New Year and Christmas duties and you have a bundle of days to do lots of work. Subscribe to My Dream House by Email So what did I achieve with brutal...

What one aspires to do in the available time over Christmas – the eighteen days of Christmas plan, phew, more like ten days… Subscribe to My Dream House by Email Holiday Plan – the twelve days of Christmas (extended to eighteen and more), well what could go wrong? Well for a start,...

Did an odd thing this week and decided to take the Thursday off rather than the Friday. Friday being the day before the weekend before Christmas was to be the break up day at work so it made sense, not only Christmas lunch but also a flier – an early finish –...

Well that was a pretty useless week, but it is pretty here a Copley winter wonderland Subscribe to My Dream House by Email Every evening after work I spent with my little girl – now that certainly wasn’t useless – but not an ounce of work was achieved on the house during...

So another lovely long three day weekend with two available days to get as much work done as possible. Friday and I would have loved to have started at the crack of dawn but unfortunately it was just too cold, brrrrr. The house had been empty most of the week and only...

A bit of work on Wednesday evening was all I managed to achieve in the week, the rest of my evenings were with my little girl or working late at work. Not good on the getting the house done agenda but this week I had the luxury of taking the Friday off...

Although I only had a day to work on the house this weekend I had the distinct advantage in having an extra two pairs of hands in the form of my wonderful big sister Sandra and bro’-in-law Russell. They were up to see our folks and were kindly offering a day of...

So a little time off to see John off and last Thursday it was back to work. I’d done my full day of work at the college, getting up at dawn in the freezing cold I’d shrugged off the post-funeral-wake hangover and I’d even done some Screwfix and Tesco shopping on my...

Well as I put it last week I was taking a few contemplative days to see my old mucker John off last week. Not wanting to hijack a blog page in remembrance of John I still thought I’d briefly tell you what went on. My old lovely acquaintance and ex’ pardner Amanda...