Archive for November, 2008

New look for the blog

Over the past week, I’ve been playing around with the look and feel of the blog. First off, I changed the theme from the “as installed” one (blue background header) to a Vista style of theme. Latest step was to add a graphic to the header (the banner stuff at the top of every page [...]

Comments (4)

A start on the plot

Zoe, Andrew’s fiance, came over on Saturday. Lunch was a quick drink and some excellent hot food at The Black Horse in Clapton. Afterwards, we went back home to drop Jean off then round to spend an hour at the plot.
The first task was to take up and clean off several old car side windows [...]

Leave a Comment

We’re going green…

We’ve just been offered the use of a vegetable plot. It’s been out of use while an old house was knocked down and a new one built in its place. It gets the sun for the best part of the day and has a couple of apple trees at one end so should be nice [...]

Comments (1)

Saturday’s just blown away!

Well, I think our planned trip to Westonbirt Arboretum is off. Looking out of the window this morning revealed plenty of white caps and a rough Bristol Channel. The tugs shepherding a large car carrier into Royal Portbury Dock were throwing up plenty of spray as they ploughed into the choppy water. So plan B [...]

Comments (1)