Ending the week on a high

It's been a mixed week, for the most part normal but with a few more interesting events.   The normal pattern of day-to-day life was int...

Gung hay fat choy!

The Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon is here -  Gung hay fat choy! Traditional Chinese New Year Decoration. Image credit: Fanghong via W...

Labours of love

We are back at home after five days hard labour in Bristol. Sorry, I exaggerate .... Five days of scraping, filling, sanding  and p ainting;...

just getting on with it....the joy of a "normal" week

This week we have been getting on with things... ....Steve has picked up his new specs  (jolly good they look too) ....I have been blood-don...

The twelfth day of Christmas

There's a stretch of the M4 motorway which we jokingly refer to as the "black hole." There are many miles between junctions th...

Looking forward to 2012

We kicked off the New Year by dancing until 4 am.  Not surprisingly, the rest of the day has been very quiet as we recover...... There is mu...