Thursday Whoop whoop – The weekend has arrived early for the UK, for us this means that we have an extra-ordinary opportunity to get work done on the house. I also leant this apparently common term ‘Platy Joobs’ which I am now super committed to using as I haven’t had the exposure to it at home every day unlike the UK contingent, for the rest of you I hope you

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Monday Just another day of working. Weather has been rather mixed today with a bit of sunshine and then large cracks of thunder and quite a bit of rain but still pretty warm, all good for the garden though. Lots of leftover chicken from yesterday’s roast so chicken caesar salad for dinner. [30 May 2022] Tuesday Lots more work. Managed to make time to deadhead some of the irises though

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Sunday Today is handover day and the end of doggy daycare. I have to be honest that it wasn’t quite as easy as I’d expected, but mostly due to the issues around personal space. Basil will never let you face the bathroom plumbing alone, and you definitely need multiple, or at least much larger sofas to be comfortable for an evening. With the decent TV in the kitchen we’re rather

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Monday Worky, worky. [16 May 2022] Tuesday Been rather busy with work again today and yesterday, seems I may have forgotten to water the coriander and Matt found a pretty cool bug. He’s also been cleaning the seats in the car which is nice. Matt was then off upstairs to sort out the wiring for the ensuite lights. Not much I could do to help with this one after passing

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