Author: Franco

Fleet: Exit Stage Right

Last night, as is our habit when we have a roast chicken for Sunday dinner, I put out the chicken carcass. This is not just food, this is M&S food. Well, actually it’ was free range Waitrose food. 🙂 Having

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

Aldi’s Finest

We needed more fox bait. I certainly didn’t want to keep snagging (bloody) cats. I wondered about a party pack of Richmond Pork Sausages, which I wouldn’t normally countenance but for fox bait, they may be OK. We walked in

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

New Toy

For many years now we’ve suspected that our back garden is regularly visited by a fox. Actually, given that wild foxes have only a relatively short lifespan [2-5 yrs] we’d be talking about several foxes. We always put out our

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

Booked!

Bookcases in beech proved a little difficult to find; an oak finish is quite common but not so beech. We did eventually find some in beech at Nobis Education Furniture. Furthermore, there was a narrow [400mm], tall [1800mm] unit that

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Side Project A

In order of conception, the first of our side projects was the cloakroom – oh, all right, call a spade a spade: the downstairs loo. [It’s so small there’s absolutely no room for any cloaks, anyway.] Having decided to continue

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Side Project B

Once we’d decided to continue our ground floor flooring into the cloakroom, .a.k.a. downstairs loo, it was but a short step to decide also to continue it into the utility room. Thus the utility room became side project B. After

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Side Project C

In the time lottery of our completed side projects, next up is my Man Cave. Yay! Some good news on Remembrance Day. It was looking a bit bare last time, though it did have its smart new oak wood-effect flooring.

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Side Project E

This project stemmed from my Man Cave side project (still ongoing), which was made necessary by Franco being forcibly ejected from Office 1.0 to make way for Francine and her humongous printer in m’ Lady’s Chamber (side project D). Our

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Side Project D

[Clearly our side projects to 2020 Covid19 Knockdown were not destined to be completed in the order in which they were conceived.] Hitherto we’ve both been sharing one “office”, which was originally designed to be a single bedroom. Francine, a

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown

Finito!

Some businesses seem to be booming, largely those dealing with the things people have done whilst stuck at home during a pandemic. The kick-boards for our kitchen units have been languishing in the garage for a month or two waiting

Posted in 2020 Covid-19 Knockdown