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Well, again it is Easter and not an Easter bunny in sight. Javier, one of my students nearly fell of his chair when I told him that in England, we do not have parades of pointy headed, masked people. We…

I would like to point out that I was not taking a picture of the new builder’s bottom. I was actually trying to capture Manuel and his new assistant balancing on the top of the wall, catching concrete beams. It…

The roofing work commenced on Monday as planned, with the roof on Kate’s workshop being removed. It’s lovely and light in there now and only marginally wetter than before. Moments after taking this shot, our electrics tripped. Kate had asked…

Manuel is starting on the roof tomorrow. He said 8 o clock, but not sure whether that’s with or without the clock change. He came round on Friday and pointed out how the roof of my workshop is now bowing…

I am hoping to start a small business on Etsy selling spinning batts. These are batts of fibre that have been carded through a drum carder. Here are two of my test ones. When my workshop is reroofed, I will…

One of the most interesting things about some of the freelance writing that I do is the wide variety of subjects I get to write on. Out of the 23 articles that I’ve had this month, the subjects have been…

I’ve just come back from the supermarket and I understand enough to know that the main topic of conversation was asparagus. It is slow this year. Which, Ian and I both know as we’ve been out a few times looking…

The weather forecast showed snow today. Ha! we said, how unlikely is that? Well, not very is the answer (I think I have my double negatives right there), as we woke up this morning to snow. By this time last…

Ian kindly hit me on the head yesterday. He’d seen a mosquito. Much to my surprise there really was a mosquito. I think the lump on my head was from the mosquito bite, not Ian’s trying to swat it. This…