
Monday 14 July – Eau. M. G.
Not having written a blog last Sunday, or last night, I have decided that I would, exceptionally, write a Monday blog because some news can’t wait … My last blog showed that the telescopic cover we had bought for the pool had been installed which meant the pool area itself could be kept dry in…

Sunday 29 June – Music to our ears!
Apologies for not posting a blog last week as we were out celebrating a good friend’s birthday. In fact, the last couple of weeks have been fairly social and active. We can break the last 2 weeks into 3 elements; work we have done, work that has been done by other people, and fun stuff.…

Sunday 15 June – The Green, Green Grass of Home
At the end of last week’s blog, I said that our focus would be able to shift to other tasks having seeded the lawn the previous week. The 3 tasks I listed were hedge cutting, weeding and more lounger sanding. When I wasn’t diverted to more immediate maintenance and repair issues, I managed to start…

Sunday 08 June – Grassed Up
Once again I didn’t post a blog last week (sorry) as we didn’t have the most productive week. We were entertaining Dave’s uncle and aunt but I can’t blame them for the lack of progress! It did mean we had a couple of days off when we went out to lunch at a couple of…

Sunday 25 May – Well Oiled!
When I started to write a blog last week, I struggled to think of any significant things that we had achieved in the preceding 7 days. We certainly hadn’t been idle, but there was so little I could recall I decided not to post anything. What we definitely didn’t achieve was to get any grass…

Sunday 11 May 2025 – A Rake’s Progress
At the end of last week’s blog, I said that the pool terrace should be complete, the preparation required to sow grass seed should be complete and we may even have sown some areas and started the watering. As often occurs with my predictions, not all of them transpired !! That said, the pool terrace…

Sunday 04 May – Rake ‘n’ Roll
Apologies for not posting a blog last week. The reason was that we were engaged in pretty much a single activity which continued into this week (and will do so into next week) and it didn’t make great pictures to show. At the end of the last blog I said, having completed Hayloft, we were…

Sunday 20 April – Hey-Loft, More like Yay-Loft!!
I ended last week’s blog by saying that the priority had to be completing and rebuilding Hayloft as it hadn’t received any of my attention the preceding week. I am delighted to say that we achieved it, and this time we didn’t leave it quite so late as is our past practice, so that we…