We still have no bathroom, no shower, and no washing machine. Two weeks now. Another week to go. It didn’t help that the entire family got sick in the middle of the project, which caused the builders to get the hell out of dodge. I never got sick. I did all the housework, cooking, and…

Here I am at the beginning of another week, and I can’t help wondering where on earth the weekend went. I will admit – I spent much of it cleaning the house – which was made relatively straightforward by most of the household staying shut in bedrooms – to hopefully stop the virus that had…

After a day cleaning the house from top to bottom, I slept on the sofa last night – to avoid any chance of catching the bug my other half had on Friday night. My youngest daughter and her baby have been on lock-down too – staying in their room to avoid any chance of catching…

My other half went down with the bug that’s gone through the house this morning – which we’re guessing in norovirus. The builders were supposed to return today to continue working on our now non existent bathroom and laundry room (yes, that’s right – we are down to one bathroom, no shower, and no washing…

We are having the downstairs bathroom ripped out at the moment. A complete replacement for the bathroom I have used every day for the last twenty five years. It’s the worst bathroom in the house but I put up with it, clean it, and make the best of it while everybody else uses the bathroom…

I simplified the front page of the blog this evening – returning it to it’s old-school roots. It’s not a magazine, newspaper, or media outlet – it’s a personal journal, filled with the almost daily, forgettable thoughts of a fairly ordinary guy struggling with pretty much the same idiocy that everybody else struggles with. Yes,…

At 1am yesterday evening – just as we were switching the lights off around the house, brushing our teeth, and getting ready for bed, our youngest daughter came down the stairs at some speed, carrying her baby daughter. “We need to go to A&E – she’s not breathing properly, and 111 (on-call paramedics) said to…

The clock ticked past midnight half an hour ago, and ushered February into existence – or at least it did for me. An old friend in Australia is already getting up tomorrow morning. Friends in the US are still sitting down for dinner. It’s a funny thing – life aboard this spinning ball of mud,…

I sat down late last night to write something, then dithered over the opening sentence for a few minutes before asking myself “why am I even doing this?”. Moments afterwards I shut the computer down and wandered up to bed. It’s been a long week, and we’re only half-way through it. It doesn’t feel like…

While getting on with my work early this afternoon, the community midwife arrived at our door to measure, weigh, and inspect my granddaughter. It would appear there is a lot of paperwork involved in bringing a person officially into existence, and making sure they are happy and healthy. I caught bits and pieces of the…