Rose at the respectable time of 9am and got busy with I'm not sure what until about 11 when I went round to the bread shop to buy Yesterbake.
I did some bits and bobs in the garden, including chopping up the last of the ash branches delivered by Mark the gardener, and the usual housework. At 4pm I headed off for a meeting at El Piano with a friend of a friend called Vicky, who worked for a local magazine last year, and is preparing to launch a new magazine and website in August. She wanted to see if I was willing to contribute to their 'green' and ethical living section, either as a columnist/blogger or as some sort of consultant... I'm not sure. I think the conversation we had was a 'getting to know you' session, a 'scoping' meeting.
At 6 I went to see David, who wasn't feeling like going out, but was happy that I'd bought 6 small screws to rehang two wardrobe sliding doors, which I did, successfully, with the help of some matchsticks to make the existing holes tighter. I also dealt with the picture lighting stuff and think that just one picture light needs either repairing or replacing.
Another thing which has been worrying David is the levels of moisture in the cellar. So I went to investigate and found two areas which need 'seeing to'. I'll be dealing with these over the next few days, and getting Environmental Health involved.
I got his food to him and one or two other things, and left early at 7.40. I came home via Freshways which had some good fruity stuff for me, and I took that down the garden before having tea, which was a bit of nutloaf (the last bit), a bread roll and a bowl of DELICIOUS tomato soup made last night by me!
And a fairly normal evening ensued, various phone calls and emails and facebook conversations. Enjoyed a TV programme on the problems with some unscrupulous recycling companies and electronic waste.
One of the highlights today was finding that a robin has built a nest in the current logpile, in a little gap overlooking the front garden right next to our front door. There are 5 or 6 little eggs in the nest. So I'm now going to take any fuel we need from the other side whilst these eggs hatch and the robins fledge and leave. I love it when robins nest in funny places.... memories of one nesting in the garage a few years back.
When I came to publish my blog, something had gone wrong with the internet connection and I went to bed before publishing, which I did as soon as possible on Tuesday.
I did some bits and bobs in the garden, including chopping up the last of the ash branches delivered by Mark the gardener, and the usual housework. At 4pm I headed off for a meeting at El Piano with a friend of a friend called Vicky, who worked for a local magazine last year, and is preparing to launch a new magazine and website in August. She wanted to see if I was willing to contribute to their 'green' and ethical living section, either as a columnist/blogger or as some sort of consultant... I'm not sure. I think the conversation we had was a 'getting to know you' session, a 'scoping' meeting.
At 6 I went to see David, who wasn't feeling like going out, but was happy that I'd bought 6 small screws to rehang two wardrobe sliding doors, which I did, successfully, with the help of some matchsticks to make the existing holes tighter. I also dealt with the picture lighting stuff and think that just one picture light needs either repairing or replacing.
Another thing which has been worrying David is the levels of moisture in the cellar. So I went to investigate and found two areas which need 'seeing to'. I'll be dealing with these over the next few days, and getting Environmental Health involved.
I got his food to him and one or two other things, and left early at 7.40. I came home via Freshways which had some good fruity stuff for me, and I took that down the garden before having tea, which was a bit of nutloaf (the last bit), a bread roll and a bowl of DELICIOUS tomato soup made last night by me!
And a fairly normal evening ensued, various phone calls and emails and facebook conversations. Enjoyed a TV programme on the problems with some unscrupulous recycling companies and electronic waste.
One of the highlights today was finding that a robin has built a nest in the current logpile, in a little gap overlooking the front garden right next to our front door. There are 5 or 6 little eggs in the nest. So I'm now going to take any fuel we need from the other side whilst these eggs hatch and the robins fledge and leave. I love it when robins nest in funny places.... memories of one nesting in the garage a few years back.
When I came to publish my blog, something had gone wrong with the internet connection and I went to bed before publishing, which I did as soon as possible on Tuesday.
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