Victoria has been to Northern Ireland this week to see a teacher friend from school, Elma, she went with Amanda. Reggie has been hanging out with me, catching up on his Zzzz, as I’m not much fun when I’m working. Monday and Tuesday were part of the end to the mini heatwave, although it did…

It was a busy week this week and I’m wondering where to start. Kevin has been here sanding the playroom floor, then applying the primer and two coats of sealer. This has meant that the room has been a no go zone and will remain so through to Tuesday next week, or if there is…

This is the start of what promises to be an eventful few weeks. Mike who cleared the valley in January is back to cut some paths with a mini digger, build a couple of ponds at the bottom and expose what we hope is a dry stone wall at the top. But first he had…

It’s been a busy few days, well what I mean by that is that I have been doing something in each of the three evenings and now on Thursday I am doing my mid-week writing for the diary and the podcast journey. Bridge on Monday evening was a mixed bag again, and as Alan says…

I have been on holiday this week, taking advantage of the Jubilee weekend where we have two public holidays in the same week, a bit like Christmas, take 3 days annual leave and you have 9 days on the trot, forgetting about work, not that I ever really do forget about Maximo. The garden project…

I’ve had Reggie with me all week this week, Victoria went back (with Badger) to Twickenham on Monday and will be back Friday evening for half-term. I’ll be taking the week off as well, three days leave and the two public holidays, I expect many in the UK will be doing the same. Reggie had…

You’ll be pleased to hear that it was a much better week this week. Reggie remained poorly though the first few days and by the weekend was back to normal. He did have a second visit to the vet on Wednesday and an injection that is supposed to stop the nausea but made him more…

It’s not been a good week overall, so I’ll start with something a bit more positive. The idea behind the work-based podcast Maximo Bite Size is to create a series of short episodes that will help someone to prepare for the new Maximo functional certification. I felt I could justify writing some of the transcripts…

It is our holidays; we’ll be having a short break in Lisbon. This is the first day off work for at least ten weeks and I need the break. Most of Monday morning was taken up on my laptop, checking conditions for entry to Portugal, printing Covid passes, passenger locator forms, boarding passes, ordering taxis…

Reggie is staying with me this week and no doubt my step count will increase. Victoria returned to Twickenham after lunch, it will be her last week at school before the Easter break. As I had Reggie staying, I decided to abstain from Bridge, it will be the same next week too, as we will…