Just before the rain rolled in.....
Monday, 31 August 2015
Friday, 28 August 2015
rake and roll
We do have to travel sixty miles to work on the job, but we DO get to stay in the house and are well looked after.
All we have to do is work,which the Pirate does too well...he has to learn to stop when told that he has done enough.....then he wont be feeling sorry for himself for a day or more because he has over done it..... still, his appetite and blood pressure are good. So we are getting something right.
We now have internet in the new abode, but not a marvellous connection. Hopefully some judicious tree pruning will help....
Monday, 24 August 2015
The Shed
Thats what friends are for....meanwhile , "Hers" is full of his stuff pending completion of "His"....
Friday, 21 August 2015
back online
We've been in since 20 July...still not sure if we can afford to stay,but we'll do what we can.
It took a while, but now we're back online...would have been only a week if the engineer had actually come here on the first appointment...even though he couldn't sort every connection!
We're working hard with garden work, and have got some coming in as under-gardeners for a local gardener when she needs extra hands. We like that....no chasing the work or the payments!!
One possibility will be actually buying some new tools if we have to carry on with garden work to make ends meet. At 76 and 62 years old we had hoped we could ease down and concentrate on things we want to do...like riding bikes, doing our own garden and making pots and prints.....
I've been sorting out the email and spam backlog...almost time to get a month's photos on the computer and show you a few.....
Meanwhile Daughter has been here for a couple of days, with family, and much of my paperwork has been weeded,a few boxes sorted and the recycling wheelie bin filled!!!!
Plus we've had a couple of trips out!
It took a while, but now we're back online...would have been only a week if the engineer had actually come here on the first appointment...even though he couldn't sort every connection!
We're working hard with garden work, and have got some coming in as under-gardeners for a local gardener when she needs extra hands. We like that....no chasing the work or the payments!!
One possibility will be actually buying some new tools if we have to carry on with garden work to make ends meet. At 76 and 62 years old we had hoped we could ease down and concentrate on things we want to do...like riding bikes, doing our own garden and making pots and prints.....
I've been sorting out the email and spam backlog...almost time to get a month's photos on the computer and show you a few.....
Meanwhile Daughter has been here for a couple of days, with family, and much of my paperwork has been weeded,a few boxes sorted and the recycling wheelie bin filled!!!!
Plus we've had a couple of trips out!
Sunday, 26 July 2015
final day
The old house is spotless,the sheds empty and garden nearly done..
now it is raining!
Weather permitting, the moved Shed should go up tomorrow....
and perhaps if we get enough work we'll be able to afford to stay in the new place next year when the rent raise comes in. Not that the Pirate had planned to be still mowing and digging other peoples' gardens at 76 and counting...
we'd rather be doing our own!!
now it is raining!
Weather permitting, the moved Shed should go up tomorrow....
and perhaps if we get enough work we'll be able to afford to stay in the new place next year when the rent raise comes in. Not that the Pirate had planned to be still mowing and digging other peoples' gardens at 76 and counting...
we'd rather be doing our own!!
Friday, 24 July 2015
from the frying pan into the fire?
Looks like the new place that was too good to be true,is....
Now we're home-hunting at just the wrong time of year. Not much affordable,let alone suitable.
One bedroom flat in the local run down small town anyone, in the worst part of it?
Or even a one bedroom council flat in an isolated village , no garden, no parking, no sheds, no buses, icy roads in Winter all uphill out of the village... and the village shop is about to close again....
In theory we have six months here, so four months to find somewhere....
At least The Shed has moved, and all the three small sheds' contents go into my workshop.....
I think that unpacking will be minimal.
Pirate is very sad and feeling that he is being punished for something....can't say I'm too happy either.
Now we're home-hunting at just the wrong time of year. Not much affordable,let alone suitable.
One bedroom flat in the local run down small town anyone, in the worst part of it?
Or even a one bedroom council flat in an isolated village , no garden, no parking, no sheds, no buses, icy roads in Winter all uphill out of the village... and the village shop is about to close again....
In theory we have six months here, so four months to find somewhere....
At least The Shed has moved, and all the three small sheds' contents go into my workshop.....
I think that unpacking will be minimal.
Pirate is very sad and feeling that he is being punished for something....can't say I'm too happy either.
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
cleaning the old
The old gaff is just about empty, and the Pirate has been busy Spring Cleaning...can't call it Summer Cleaning as the weather STILL isn't very summery....
Tomorrow afternoon we get the workshop keys, so the morning will be the last load from the house,and all my plants from the garden and yard. Then the Sheds will be emptied to the Workshop.
Friday is hopefully Move The Shed day.....when that is up, the Workshop gets emptied to the Shed....ready for the Carpenter to bring Workshop contents up from Wales next month!
Musical Sheds !!
All being Well........
Tomorrow afternoon we get the workshop keys, so the morning will be the last load from the house,and all my plants from the garden and yard. Then the Sheds will be emptied to the Workshop.
Friday is hopefully Move The Shed day.....when that is up, the Workshop gets emptied to the Shed....ready for the Carpenter to bring Workshop contents up from Wales next month!
Musical Sheds !!
All being Well........
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