We're still rather up in the air about the new living room floor. In fact, I've just booked another quotation: wood-flooring guy replied to a request to quote for vinyl with cheaper wood options, vinyl-flooring guy a) still hasn't actually produced a quote and b) lost a lot of brownie points when he looked at our upstairs bathroom flooring and ( Read more... )

At my last quilt workshop, I started making a quilt (duh) and then realised after I'd come home and carried on with it that I didn't have enough of one of the fabrics. And that the piece I had left didn't have the selvedge strip on it ( Read more... )

We're plotting new sofas, and have pretty much decided which ones we want and narrowed the fabric choices down to two or three (just waiting for the swatches to arrive so that we can see them in the living room ( Read more... )

(Only not in the fun way ( Read more... )

This morning, I rode GB, taking it quite gently: both of us seemed to be fine with our bad legs ( Read more... )

I'm on the M&S customer survey panel, which is occasionally interesting but more often infuriating. Every so often, I get an email asking me to do a survey in which, for about a dozen items of clothing, I give a written comment, a 'they would pay' price (on a badly set-up sliding scale that just gives the option of five prices equally spaced ( Read more... )

At least, I don't like Wednesdays when Mike has to go to London. Particularly when he has to be there relatively early ( Read more... )

This morning, we went to the Country Store, because they were having a sale on horse and pet stuff. The car is now full of sacks of feed, which we keep forgetting to take out (Edit: yay, got most of them out. Damn, forgot to get the last one ( Read more... )

After we'd ridden and done the boys, I went out to pick tomatoes and decided that, given the way they were going black and mouldy, I'd do better to just have the plants out and put the undamaged fruit indoors to ripen, so that took longer than expected but now I have a couple of boxes that will hopefully become useful later ( Read more... )

We went out for a hack this morning, with Jo. Bugs was a wee bit frisky a couple of times, but nothing too terrible. We're not sure how much longer Jodie will be able to come with us on hacks, although in her defence it was still quite warm, if not sunny ( Read more... )