Posts by Benjamin Dickins

Happy New Year. We hope you all had very happy Christmases and enjoyed whatever it was you chose to do, if anything, to see in the New Year. In past years, my first blog of January has been a summary of everything we had achieved in the previous 12 months.  This year, I will delay…

I can’t believe that this is the last Sunday, and so my last blog, before we arrive at Christmas.  Where has this year gone? I finished my last blog stated that the weather forecast was looking amazing for Christmas and so I should be able to make lots of progress outside.  It has been absolutely…

I had probably better start with an explanation of my title.  Gutted is not a word I like (unless you are speaking of preparing good fish for dinner) as it is generally associated with losing in certain sports which we don’t follow. However, it is possibly appropriate as to how we feel right now as…

For the first time in weeks, I have managed to write a blog a week after the previous one!  Sadly, our holiday is already a long distant memory and certainly the barmy warm weather is!  I can’t believe that we are already in December however, on the upside it does mean we can get our…

I am not going to admit that writing a blog fortnightly is a better routine for me, despite that being the length of time which has passed since my last post!  There are, as always, good reasons (well reasons) that this is the case and, despite us promising ourselves that we would have a productive…

Again, it has been a number of weeks since my last blog, and this one won’t be overly long.  The last blog had the bad news about David’s Mum’s passing so the following week we were not the most motivated as we were preparing to go back to the UK. It also mentioned that for…

I didn’t post a blog last week and we didn’t achieve as much as we’d hoped in the previous 7 days as life has a way of throwing you occasionally. Very sadly, David’s mum passed away quite suddenly and unexpectedly, and we thought that he would go back to the UK to be with his…

As predicted in my last blog 2 weeks ago, I didn’t write anything last Sunday as I have been focussed on the same activity for 3 weeks – hedge cutting.  I have made some good progress but have still not finished the job. This is partly because we have had a number of days when…

Last week’s blog said that my focus for the last 7 days would be hedge cutting – if the weather stayed fine and it didn’t disturb our guests.  Thankfully, for the most part, that is what I have been able to do so this won’t be a very long blog. The week’s weather has been…