Month October 2008

Yesterday the builder found some flowers painted on one of the walls. This was around the door frame of the room with a whole in the wall. Sadly, they are covered with plaster that is bad, so we couldn’t save…

At the moment he is just working on the front two rooms.

It was raining today, so Manolo started work in the house. The front dining room was being knocked back today and it will be the front guest living room tomorrow. We’re going to have to make some firm decisions soon…

Wall 17th October

Thursday morning…

When I come back from a visit to the UK, I often feel that it is inappropriate to start my blog post by saying that a good time was had. However, to say otherwise doesn’t seem right – particularly this…

OK – I should be catching up on writing assignments. I have 6 incredibly dull articles to write today – and true to form – I thought they could just wait a few minutes while I do some other very…

It’s nice when nice things happen. Today I was surprised to see in my PayPay account that my balance had gone up by 10%. Sterling has fallen back against the dollar, and as I get paid in dollars and I…

Sam and Blackbeard

I’m still helping That Child with his English. And I am constantly learning new things myself – how did I ever learn English? It’s so bloomin’ complicated! Here’s a new one that I never knew that I knew – adverbs…