I have this swivel chair that I bought out of the intertubes a few years back.  It's not very fancy.  It has all sorts of paint-stains on it and it [...]

The enemy within

I hate painting

I'm now into the fourth week without a boiler. It's hell. At last I begin to understand what those poor people in the Third World must be going through, having [...]

Jesus, I fucking hate plumbing. My father wasn't like me. My father loved plumbing and he had all the skills though his own father was a stonemason. I think the [...]

I was a bit bored and there were loads of jobs waiting in line. What to do first? Finish the kitchen?  OK.  I'll do that soon. Do the garden? Aaaaarrrrgggghhh!!!! [...]

Seriously.  What am I going to do with all the drink left behind after the party?  Everywhere I look I see more cans of beer stuck in flower-pots, more bottles [...]

This was our little gazebo last night.  Cosy, isn't it? Well, I'm afraid I have bad news for you.  The little gazebo is no more, because the wind made shit [...]

The magnolia brightens my life every March with its lovely Spring flowers. Why is it blooming again, in August?  How did it flower twice in one year? ______________________ Previously: Spring

We set up a couple of gazebos and stoked a big brazier of coal.  Then we packed a cooler with iced beer, lit oil lamps and fired up the barbecue.  [...]