the adlards

So why is it that I took My Good Wife’s advice and got someone in to do the deck, but insisted on doing the floor myself …

I will spend time on the deck this week …

Me old mum introduced the above expression on a duller-than-can-easily-be-put-into-words safari …

Lots of buried nuts I guess …

Thank you all for your kind words of commiseration. I feel much better now …

It’s my left eye’s having trouble. Is it obvious?

I visited the opthalmologist this morning and yes, it probably was just an extra-strength sneeze that caused the problem …

Josie’s an accomplished telephone user at the age of 2-and-a-third …

… it has to be said, in the interests of expurgating the last remnants of the working week from my tortured psyche, that if my working days were filled with fewer conversations like the one above I would have been assessing tenders today …

He called back with the news that the skip had been delivered in the morning, but that the skip-hire men had been chased away by a Very Rude Neighbour. Really? We have one of those? I know quite a deaf one, but surely she … oh bollocks …