Before we move on to what happened after Matt’s return, there was also some exciting news from London. Matt won the London AWS summit DeepRacer competition – machine learning self-driving car racing. It seems that since his win in 2019 they have fixed the problem with the winners cup, and now you can indeed drink champagne out of it. [27 April 2022] Saturday Yay, it’s brilliant Matt being back. The
Read moreMonday Matt was up early and off to Luchon to get some bits to connect up the hoses in the garden as some of the pool guys are due over later, not sure which ones though as seems that they haven’t received the tiles yet. He’s back with a few little presents, 6 handy new buckets (just like the ones Monty uses) and only €4 for 6. After various calls
Read moreFriday Matt was off early to go to collect some exciting presents from Lidl – yeah I know I’m a classy bird clearly. It does all have a quality that I can improve on though and I hope that my sweet peas will help with this. I have been working most of the day but I have also been potting up as much as I can so everything needs moving
Read moreThursday An early start to the day with meetings. Before I started I realised it could be a very warm day so went to open the greenhouse, only to find that the whole shelf of seedlings had somehow been thrown off and were upside down on the floor. Unfortunately I had no time to do anything about it so in for my first meeting. After the first couple of meetings
Read moreThursday So with Matt back I may be able to sleep a little longer, not much though as there is lots of work to be done and things to manage. Apparently we’re meant to have the pool guys and technical assessment for the new boiler today. Weirdly however there seems to be no sign of either, and the pool guys in particular have been very punctual to date. I can
Read moreFriday Was hoping to crack on with house stuff today but work had different ideas. My weekly call with PSRL was extended. Then I had a call with the ever wonderful Rhys. It was very productive, but most importantly I got to briefly see Lucy before she went for lunch with her mum, she’s definitely getting close now. Quick trip around the garden afterwards and realised I had a couple
Read moreMonday It’s a big day today and a very early morning to go along with it. Up at ’em before 8am local time. There was a good reason however. The pool guys are due to arrive. Even more surprising however was the fact that they didn’t just arrive on the right day but they were even early, and there’s a whole team of them. Can’t just stand around watching them
Read moreWednesday The best, and worst, thing about people leaving is the amount of work we can get done [with the exception of Tonia who definitely adds to the delivery rate]. In the working days we’re now back to spending lunchtimes and evenings working on the house. ‘Breaks’ today were spent digging the trench deeper for the power to the new ‘pool house’. It has to be 50cm deep I understand
Read moreFriday – encore Those crazy train people on the train, it was Lee and Vicky! Thank heavens they’d had the forethought to get train beers though as I’d completely forgotten to so well played team. They were coming to visit and travelling back with me ensured that Matt would be there ready to collect them. Matt was punctual as always and also bought beer for the weary travellers – what
Read moreTuesday Although I’m heading back to London this evening there’s still a lot to do. Thankfully I did most of my packing yesterday as my meetings felt as though they would never end. We also had a Sirrocco blow through last night. The winds were epic, and of course everything is covered in Sahara sand. Probably need to get the car cleaned up so that we can actually see while
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