TweetOver the weekend there have been two dehumidifiers blasting away in my Lounge, after the builders left having skimmed the walls with a top coat of plaster over the damp proofing. The hope is that the walls will be dry enough for them to fix the skirting boards today and start the redecorating, so that [...]

TweetHi again, Now, there is a odd title! However, it is true, I am grateful to the builders who have left me without a Lounge for the time being! Why? Put simply, they are currently helping me with my focus. I work from home, and I work predominately on my own, so as all of [...]

TweetGood morning all, Yesterday the builders came, as promised, and by 12 noon our lounge had disappeared. The furniture went out through a window and is stored in one of the Holiday Cottages till the work is done. The 4 guys then set about the walls of the room and in no time the skirting [...]

TweetHi there, It was great to watch Bode Miller win his first Olympic Gold Medal at Vancouver in the Super Combined event. What an inspiration and an example of the dedication and super focus of an athlete determined to at last achieve his goal! He literally threw everything at the slope for the second part [...]

TweetGood morning, Gentle snowfall over the last few hours has given us around 4 inches of snow. How pretty it looks! And what a mess it will leave behind! But Jilly, my Labrador, loves to play in it! The timing is awful though as we have a lot of upheaval ahead of us over the [...]

TweetHi all, Well, the answer is Yes and No really. Yes, because I am here writing this blog post, right? I have also spent some time researching and writing up my first product review………..BUT, that is where the challenges appeared! In order to do my review I had to pick a product didn’t I? Well, [...]

TweetHi all, I am in week 3 of John Thornhills excellent Masterclass, and I am already needing to catch up. Well, Being away for a few days meant that i was not able to complete all my hoped for tasks last week. So far, I am finding the course is straightforward and is broken into [...]

TweetHi, and welcome back to my blog. I’ve been away for a couple of days with my family visiting Judith’s mother who is currently in a care home following an operation for a brain tumour. The operation was only a partial success as the surgeon could not remove every part of the tumour and radiotherapy [...]

TweetHi, welcome to my Blog. As I told you yesterday I live in Yorkshire, England. In fact, I live near York where my family and I run a Horse Livery business and have Holiday Cottages that we let out to visitors. Though we have had visitors from all over the world most visitors come from [...]

TweetWhat a beautiful morning it is here in Yorkshire, England. I took my 10 month old Golden Labrador, Jilly (I will put a photo of her on here in due course – when I have learnt how to do it!), for her usual walk this morning, down across the fields near where we live. I [...]