Backing onto a wood, there are a few night time noises that I’m used to hearing. As well as Tawny Owls hooting, we frequently get Muntjac wandering past “barking”; it really sounds more like a cough and is relatively regular,…
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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
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