Posts by Benjamin Dickins

At the end of my last blog 2 weeks ago, I said that we were due to enter a dry period and we had a daunting number of tasks that we need to get our teeth into.  You can draw your own conclusions about how well we did that by the fact that I didn’t…

At the end of my last blog, which was written way back on 7th January, I mentioned that there was unlikely to be another for a couple of weeks. The reason being, as I suspect some may have worked out, we have been away for a short break.  Autumn and winter are our quietest times…

Sunday 07 January – 2023:  The Year of the Windy Duck We hope you all enjoyed your New Year celebrations whatever you were doing and wherever you were celebrating – or just giving it a stiff ignoring! David and I spent the evening of 31st here with friends and David’s Dad who had stayed over…

Having written my previous blog last Saturday, so that I didn’t need to on Christmas Eve, I had to do it in a bit of a hurry.  Having re-read it, it became clear that my spelling and grammar, not perfect at the best of times, suffered!  Also, force of habit made me write that it…

I promised last Sunday that I would try and write a Saturday blog with tomorrow, and next Sunday, being significant dates.  I have managed, but will keep it short! We have had a productive week and think we are now definitely back on track for our schedule for the festive period – that’s not to…

Having promised, at the end of my last blog, to write again last Sunday, you may have noticed I didn’t manage to get anything written. That’s not to say we didn’t do anything, but we certainly didn’t do anywhere near as much as we wanted (needed?) and we were perhaps a bit behind the Christmas…

It has been almost a month since I wrote my last blog which is no reflection of a lack of activity but that in that time David and I have spent a couple of weeks back in the UK catching up with family and friends. We had a great time and are very grateful to…

Unusually I am posting this week’s blog on a Monday, and there is good reason for that! Last week’s blog said that the weather has been pretty poor all autumn with rain and blustery winds but that it looked like things may take a turn for the even worse as the Met Office has already…

The title of this week’s blog isn’t a reflection of our hygiene habits(!) but what we, and our pool builders, have had to do all week. In my last blog I mentioned that my back had twinged to the point that I was immobile at the start of the week and so this week I…

It has been another 2 weeks since I wrote my last blog but things have been happening and we have made the first big strides in our large winter project. When I wrote the last blog we had David’s Dad staying with us and 1 week left to complete the clearance of the old vegetable…