View from the Potting Shed

While you were asleep (probably, if you live in the UK) I was up early (05:45) and working on the final few edits and corrections to the first draft of the Teach Yourself Mahjong book which landed on my doorstep about a fortnight ago. So far I’ve only spotted about 15 corrections, which is […]

The kitchen at Kadesh, now finally empty.
This has been a good weekend for support and help from friends, and thanks to them Kadesh is now empty and ready for a new boiler (next week) and handover (the following week).
Last week as I began to dismantle the furniture at Kadesh Jane packed up the crockery and […]

I need to cancel one of our TV Licences — the one for Kadesh to be exact. At the moment both Jane and I have one each. We’ll be left with Jane’s one, which is only fair as she watches more TV than I do.
Here’s my favourite bit of “small print” on the back […]

Today we’ve been dismantling furniture in Kadesh. I thought that you might like to see the three (reverse) stages of bunk beds.

Stage one: Bunk beds.

Stage two: Bunk beds being dismantled.

Stage three: A pile of wood.

Kadesh has now been sold.
On Monday 25 September we sold Kadesh, only eleven days after we put it on the market. It was truly an answer to prayer; praise God!
Having been so disappointed that we couldn’t afford to extend the house in the way that we envisioned it we quickly set about putting it up […]

As many readers of this blog will know, we’re sadly putting our wee ‘holiday’ cottage up for sale.
The plan was to extend it and move in, but a couple of weeks ago we learned that that was going to cost us far more than we expected in order to give us the space that we […]

So there we were — Jane, Spot and myself — sitting in the living room watching a repeat of Doctor Who on the electric television while eating dinner of a nice Madras curry (Spot wasn’t eating his bowl of curry for some reason) when all of a sudden there was an ALMIGHTY crash and everything™ […]