Welcome to the cheap seats

I’m blogging in the back seat of the cheap seats cinema, where the kids are seeing a freebie movie. That’s what you do when your offspring are off camp, it’s 108 degrees outside and you need, (a) a way to entertain them and (b) some peace to write. Let’s see how long I’m allowed to [...]

I walk the line

When I started this blog, Hubby’s concern was this: “D’you really think you can make banging nails into something interesting enough? I mean, for people to read?” Course I can,. you cheeky bugger. Yet the question still haunts me. Especially with weeks such as this, when banging nails into wood is all I have to report. But bear [...]

She came, she saw, she…

Well, she didn’t put me to work, but we got a lot of things ironed out. It was Visit #1 with Ms Fix-It, my DIY mentor/whipcracker, the lady brought in to help me check off oh-so-many items on my remodeling to-do list. I had laid out my tool set in readiness. Munchkin excitedly greeted her at the [...]

A new day

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” – Albert Einstein We have been in this house for five years, three months and two days. So long that the painting I did when we first moved in now needs sprucing up. What was to be a glorious kitchen ceiling (it [...]

Drill, baby, drill

It’s been a week of steps. Giant steps. Not baby ones, but decent, manly ones. There were a few steps backwards, like when I lodged that shelf in Sweetpea’s closet and it wouldn’t budge (of which more later). But mostly it’s been onwards, upwards and… inwards. As in drilling. It’s all about the power drill, [...]