Author: Andy

Over  the last couple of days more wildlife has been spotted in/around the back.  Glad we dont live behind the garage, who knows what lurks way down there!  Probably crocs, lions and camels (pending). We reckon, after consulting Haynes “Stuff that actually lurks in the garden”, that Sigourney is a female Sparrowhawk.  Pretty sure the…

Wasn’t the Klingons…. for some reason all the spugies went and hid!

Whilst driving along the B3276, we passed “Bedruthan Steps Camping“, about half way between Newquay and Padstow. We returned the next evening to enjoy the view and have a picnic.  On the way back we found the “quick” way to actually get there (by driving past the airport!). It has quite a view Bring your…

With a secure and lockable and dry utility to be room in the garage, the office room can return. Can see the floor and everything (for the first time this year). Bit more to move/relocate/chuck and an official ‘study’ can return to use.

This blog is a wordpress site, and i wanted to test overlaying 2 photos with a slidy slidy bar. Anyway this is a test of the “Twenty 20 Image Before-After” plugin.  Seems to work quite well. Going back a few years now, can you guess the missing person? [twenty20 img1=”972″ img2=”973″ offset=”1.0″]

With some spare time, rearranged the front room. All the carpet is up and gone, all the laminate rearranged by the computer station, main table set at 4ft wide.  For the napoleonics have coloured strips to show which side is French (blue of course) and Allied (red!). So basically the same, but completely different. Twas…

Due to an outbreak in Roche of ‘EHWBS’ (Excessively High Wheelie Bin Syndrome) – steps have been taken (well – “issued” might be a better way of saying it) to resolve the problem.

As Bongo didn’t make it home from the vets today, we decided to buy a tree in remembrance. The crab apple ‘barribal’ guarding the back gate – like what he did… in his own way. He became part of our family in 2010 as a rescue dog, believed to born around 2003. He struggled on…