Category: General

  • Return of the office room(almost)

    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.

  • Test of Image Overlays

    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″]

  • Room rearranged

    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…

  • Steps required

    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.

  • RIP Bongo

    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…

  • New family member

    Get well camel arrives for Mr Dowell. The tune it plays when squeezed sets it aside from all the rest.

  • Study area

    Proof you can turn your conservatory into a study area (as well as library, exercise, toy soldier painting and filing area)

  • Reorganised

    Ok we have moved the bed inside so we are no longer freezing at night. So table and computer all shifted around too And to keep the in-laws at bay, the great plastic door of whooshiness

  • Anyone for Coffee

    Unexpected birthday pressie from my wonderful wife. Almost like I’m never supposed to leave the Wargames/computer centre. De Longhi Corso coffee machine!

  • Dining room gets a chair

    Wadebridge Cornwall Air Ambulance shop provided the chair,