• my diary

    light at the end of the tunnel!

    And about time too after a fairly lengthy return to the days of everything being covered in dust and filth, piles of furniture heaped up all over the place, endless vacuuming and everywhere smelling of paint. There’s still a fair old way to go yet, but as the handful of visitors from the last few days (after I threw a…

  • my diary

    scorchio!

    A big wave from Scarborough (finally), via Douglas, the Isle of Man ferry and Liverpool too! Mostly sunny Douglas too, no less – after something of a battle up the M1 to get home the previous Monday afternoon in monsoon weather, the warm and pleasant day I woke up to having arrived in fit and cheerful but mostly sleepy mood…