Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Working from home.
Today has been a quiet day at home.
We needed it.It was a momentous day out doors.
It wasn't what the builders would call "topping out" day - but it does give us much more of an impression of what the medical centre will look like.
The roof arrived.
The height of the roof is not so great - quite gently sloping.
Brick work is being done lower down.
Do you see the blossom on Solly's tree?
There were other goings on outside too.
I don't think that creating a new wooden cover for the manhole cover in the back garden quite equates to erecting a roof, but it needed to be done.
Unfortunately Bill found something else that needs doing as he worked.
He lifted the metal man hole cover and discovered a blockage.
Its the perennial story of our drainage system.
It has happened so many times over the years. The cause of the blockage is not on our land - not even on our drain. But the blockage backs up along our pipe.
The council were informed and they said that somebody would come....when?
I have worked indoors.
The dining room table needed to be cleared.... poor George couldn't find a space to sit!
My purchases from Ford and Sayers Common last weekend were still strewn everywhere.
Now they are cleaned, written up and priced up.I had bought one large vase at Ford for £15. The seller packed it up in a cardboard box; all the time it has been on the table I was wondering if it had been worth £15, but when I got it out I was really impressed with it.
Yes, it was well worth £15 - hope somebody else thinks it is worth twice that!
This afternoon it was ebay time. I had just 2 items selling. And I described another 12 and listed them.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2310
If you are an old Crawley resident - sorry, I don't mean that you are old!
I mean if you have at any point lived in the town for a while you will be interested in this site.
And if you want to wallow in nostalgia for the days of challenging and innocent play for children then take a look.
Ashley found the site and shared it with his Facebook friends.
Jamie always links his blogs to Facebook - but not everybody sees that of course.This week he wrote a little about Songkran.
http://phuket-weather.blogspot.com/
It can get a bit wild in Thailand during the Thai New Year - or Songkran.
The use of water is symbolic of washing away the old year.
Nowadays it is an excuse for water fights - everywhere.
Four years ago we were there. We can remember buckets of water thrown at the car - we stayed dry. People on mopeds felt the full force of water if they were unwise enough to drive.
I would guess that it can be crazy, even a bit scary, in the centre of Patong - the main big and brassy holiday town.
At that time, when the children were much younger we kept our water fights within the garden.
Jessica honours her old Grandmother!
Just now we hope that other very stupid behaviour in Thailand will settle down again.
But the political problems seem to be as perennial as our drain problems.
The unrest has only hit a small part of Bangkok and Phuket is untroubled.
Nobody there wants politics to upset the status quo of making as much money as possible from tourists.
We needed it.It was a momentous day out doors.
It wasn't what the builders would call "topping out" day - but it does give us much more of an impression of what the medical centre will look like.
The roof arrived.
The height of the roof is not so great - quite gently sloping.
Brick work is being done lower down.
Do you see the blossom on Solly's tree?
There were other goings on outside too.
I don't think that creating a new wooden cover for the manhole cover in the back garden quite equates to erecting a roof, but it needed to be done.
Unfortunately Bill found something else that needs doing as he worked.
He lifted the metal man hole cover and discovered a blockage.
Its the perennial story of our drainage system.
It has happened so many times over the years. The cause of the blockage is not on our land - not even on our drain. But the blockage backs up along our pipe.
The council were informed and they said that somebody would come....when?
I have worked indoors.
The dining room table needed to be cleared.... poor George couldn't find a space to sit!
My purchases from Ford and Sayers Common last weekend were still strewn everywhere.
Now they are cleaned, written up and priced up.I had bought one large vase at Ford for £15. The seller packed it up in a cardboard box; all the time it has been on the table I was wondering if it had been worth £15, but when I got it out I was really impressed with it.
Yes, it was well worth £15 - hope somebody else thinks it is worth twice that!
This afternoon it was ebay time. I had just 2 items selling. And I described another 12 and listed them.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2310
If you are an old Crawley resident - sorry, I don't mean that you are old!
I mean if you have at any point lived in the town for a while you will be interested in this site.
And if you want to wallow in nostalgia for the days of challenging and innocent play for children then take a look.
Ashley found the site and shared it with his Facebook friends.
Jamie always links his blogs to Facebook - but not everybody sees that of course.This week he wrote a little about Songkran.
http://phuket-weather.blogspot.com/
It can get a bit wild in Thailand during the Thai New Year - or Songkran.
The use of water is symbolic of washing away the old year.
Nowadays it is an excuse for water fights - everywhere.
Four years ago we were there. We can remember buckets of water thrown at the car - we stayed dry. People on mopeds felt the full force of water if they were unwise enough to drive.
I would guess that it can be crazy, even a bit scary, in the centre of Patong - the main big and brassy holiday town.
At that time, when the children were much younger we kept our water fights within the garden.
Jessica honours her old Grandmother!
Just now we hope that other very stupid behaviour in Thailand will settle down again.
But the political problems seem to be as perennial as our drain problems.
The unrest has only hit a small part of Bangkok and Phuket is untroubled.
Nobody there wants politics to upset the status quo of making as much money as possible from tourists.
