Staying the course
Image via Wikipedia Do you find that often you lose interest in something after it has occupied your thoughts, eaten away at your time or perhaps because it has become a burden? Throughout my life I...
View ArticleCowboys
Electrician (Photo credit: fingle) I don’t know where the expression ‘cowboys’ came from when describing unqualified people engaged in the building trade and that includes anyone carrying out works...
View ArticleMy involvement has ended
On Saturday afternoon my work on the bathroom project ended and all that remained to be done was filling and painting the box which covers the pipes to the bath tap column and painting the rear of the...
View ArticleThe waiting game
Builder at work (Photo credit: Tymtoi) I’ve never been a patient person when waiting for things to happen though I have the patience to resolve problems that I am often confronted with. I just don’t...
View ArticleNothing is straight
Nothing is straight but it really doesn’t matter. Nothing is altogether parallel either but again it doesn’t matter. Working on the project I have called the Plot it has become apparent that alignment...
View ArticleApathy
Apathy. The day started well enough considering it was Monday, back to work day and the fact that I’d a restless night’s sleep. I had one electrical job to do at nine o’clock but I left the house much...
View ArticleNot very romantic
No walk for me on Wednesday morning, I wanted to get on with some work in the rear garden. For some time I have promised myself I would do something with the remaining long length of natural stone we...
View ArticleFeel better about it
During the work of digging out the cellar floor I had been anxious about the stability of the remainder of the floor close-by to the pit I had dug. In yesterday’s post I wrote about filling the bottom...
View ArticleAt last
Saturday (17 th) ended up being a busy day for me though it wasn’t all about the decorating down in the cellar. I wanted to complete the construction of the cupboard surround for the boiler but I...
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