Today started off with total indecision about what to do. By about lunchtime, I realised that the only way I could get the green bin full of garden rubbish (and I have a lot of it to shift) would be to dismantle the fence panel that's been blocking the side access for months. It's a job that I've failed to do, but it's now done. The ivy that ( Read more... )

The new Krups coffee grinder is really good. But the coffee comes out at about six million volts, because it's all new and shiny and static-y. Which makes getting the coffee out of the hopper and into the coffee-maker rather... interesting ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to report that I now possess a coffee grinder, and have sampled my first freshly-ground coffee with it. I ground enough to fill the wake-up coffee maker for tomorrow morning, too ( Read more... )

I have good news to report of the state of my ball-cock. For some time now, the overflow has been dripping, from the main header tank, all over the Honeysuckle which is growing up the back of the house. The resulting splashes of hard water have coated the kitchen window in lime-scale, and recently a small pool of water formed out in the garden ( ( Read more... )