Monday Tender due by noon so have to be up early for various calls and sign-off. I’d almost forgotten how stressful this all is. Thankfully all done in time and I can get back to my regular day job. Despite having a lot to do I found time for a short wander in garden to find this caterpillar while Matt hacked off a lot of the branches of the recently
Read moreSaturday Today is pollarding day so Matt is up with the birds (well, like, just before 8:30). The best I can do at this point is push for a cup of tea and reprieve till 9am. I know I do really want these trees to go so we can get the sun in the afternoon but questioning how much I want it right now. We only have the cherry picker
Read moreFriday Exciting surprise with the post this morning, our ‘Carte de Sejours’ have arrived. This is basically our residence permit for France, easy movement back and forth to London and free travel in the EU.. oh, yeah… damned Covid. Guess for now it’s just another thing for Matt to carry around in his wallet. Yet another busy day of work and juggling projects and meetings, thank heavens this submission will
Read moreMonday Work, from morning until very late at night. Matt made a nice green curry for dinner though. [12 April 2021] Tuesday Lots of work again today. Still quite cold but at least the sun has popped out briefly. It seems that Mr Wiggles has moved into the bee hotel before we’ve even had a chance to finish it. [We’ve become somewhat lazy in our naming since getting here –
Read moreSaturday Since Matt has had another go at them it’s time to try the manifolds for the new plumbing. Bugger! Still leaking. Nowhere near as much but can’t have constant dripping so it’s back to the drawing board (YouTube). Before we get into that (and since we can’t go on a Sunday) it’s off to Intermarche. Heavens, I know it’s not far but I’m exhausted today and just the walk
Read moreTuesday Definitely back to work with a bump. Projects and work coming out of our ears. Worked very late, had pizza, went to bed. [6 Apr 2021] Wednesday With the Wirral bid written yesterday, today it’s back to SC1 work, then Oxford for the evening. Thankfully I did manage to squeeze out a few minutes today to finally get my sweetpeas planted up. I suspect however that I am going
Read moreEaster Sunday First big job of the day is to work out what is happening over at the side of the fireplace as Matt suspects that the joist is totally rotted and we can’t finish framing up the room until it’s replaced. I think you can tell from the look on his face that he wasn’t wrong. That is definitely a very rotten piece of wood. Replacing joists, even little
Read moreThursday Another busy day at work. Matt has been having a go at French plumbing but it seems that they don’t make these things easy. If one is just slightly out of line then you can’t get the next one in. Surely it would be easier if they just spaced them out a bit further. He seems to be doing well though so all credit to him. Decided to work
Read moreMonday An early start to the day as we need to take the car into the shop, I really hope that we have it back before we go into any sort of lockdown. I do so hate mornings though so it’s time to take my cup of tea and head back to bed for a little bit. I heard a horn tooting so must be the postie with most of
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