Sunday I tried to ignore Matt for as long as possible but he doesn’t make it easy. I made it to 11am and couldn’t ignore the SDS drill any longer so figured it was time to go and help. It will be such a bonus when we are on to things that don’t make a lot of noise! Anyway, there’s not much to tell really, lots of breaking up concrete,
Read moreFriday Managed to move my call with the PS half an hour earlier which was good as Matt’s keen to get up to St Gaudens this morning as apparently Lidl has a new rotovator in the sale that started yesterday. We checked Montrejeau, St Gaudens and Luchon but none of them had one, or the larger greenhouse I wanted. The trip wasn’t an entire bust though, managed to pick up
Read moreWednesday They must have been happening for the past few months that we’ve been here and not noticed but definitely heard the monthly warning siren today. I think the guys that operate it had a lie in as they are meant to be at 12noon but they were 11 minutes late. Figured you’d probably like to know what on earth I am talking about so here you go, this is
Read moreMonday After a weekend of not being allowed to get a lie in I could really do with staying in bed till midday. Sadly not an option as I have to work today. Matt was off very early to Lidl to pick up some new lights. Quite a bit of prep to do for work and it’s invoicing day so mostly busy doing boring stuff. We did however take the
Read moreSaturday Matt’s been tackling a bit more of the kitchen, seems he is going to need a bit more help with this so my lie ins may have to be curtailed. Another big gardening job on my to do list for today. I need to remove the old growth from some of the rear of the house. Once that is done, I only have to do the 30cm strip at
Read moreThursday So I have to finish off the work for Job 2 before I can refocus on the regular day job and Matt is also super busy. May have taken a bit longer than planned and with interruptions but always good to make a strong first impression. Report seemed to go down well with Matt 3 though so finally time for a walk around the garden. First stop was to
Read moreWednesday The day started off easy enough with an expectation of just doing some video editing and then getting some gardening done. My plans were scuppered however with an email from my other employers asking for a quick bid review proposal. First things first though Matt gave me a crash course in video editing – I can’t honestly say I am great at it but I think I managed it
Read moreMonday Weather is miserable today. If the pools of water on the garden table and chairs are anything to go by the strange haze yesterday was another Sirocco. Looks as though Meow appreciated the after lunch cheese scraps though. Also seems that the geothermal engineer is booked for exactly the same time as my only conference calls today. I managed to move the first meeting but then they were running
Read moreSaturday Another busy day in garden. Of course Matt has been up for hours already, apparently on the ride on lawn mower – I have no idea how I couldn’t hear that but then I do sleep like a dead baby. Since I am up though I helped him with the plaster for the kitchen – taking photos and passing things to him counts as helping right?! Since there is
Read moreThursday Pretty early start this morning, which was a bit of a waste of time as the other person didn’t turn up. Gave me an early start on the day though to make some more time to spend outside. No bad thing either as it was far too nice to be head down working all day. I picked up my secateurs to take a brief sojourn into the garden and
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