On Friday I left my mother and cousin to spend the morning sorting stuff, and went out to get some timber for what I hope will be the last bit of workshop furniture re-arrangement. I then spent much of the rest of the day working with saw and chisel ( Read more... )

The weather forecast on Wednesday morning looked promising, so I loaded up the car for a run to the dump. It turned out I had more stuff to take than would fit, especially as timing considerations were such that my mother needed to come along for the ride so that she could get to an appointment with an audiologist early in the afternoon. The dump ( Read more... )

Well, that one was busy. Time for one of those "here are a few checkpoints" posts ( Read more... )

The last couple of days have mostly involved carpentry that has turned out to be much more labour-intensive than I'd planned. It is more-or-less coming together at last, but it's taken way longer than I'd expected, so the workshop is still a disaster area from the tidiness perspective, and my bin seems to be about half-full of sawdust ( Read more... )

On Friday morning a friend came and took my mother shopping while I go on with the workshop work. Around lunch-time they returned, and we had lunch. Then my mother tried to do some gardening, but discovered she needed assistance with some of it, so I got rather less done in the workshop than I'd hoped ( Read more... )

The tidying process has reached even worse levels of chaos than originally anticipated, and I've been a bit short of the energy and enthusiasm that would make completing the task so much easier. Oh well ( Read more... )

Tuesday was fairly quiet and restful. I even went to bed at a sensible time ( Read more... )

I did manage to avoid the computer a bit on Monday, by doing a bit of Ingress-led walking. It wasn't really enough, but it was better than nothing. I got a bit of fresh(-ish) air and a bit of exercise, and I set the perl/python/Wordpress stuff aside sufficiently thoroughly that I've not been in any hurry to pick it up again since ( Read more... )

Mostly Friday was a fairly quiet day, but I did go over to Gravesend in the evening for supper and gaming. Supper was excellent, and there was a side-order of baking involving an implausibly large quantity of white chocolate, and then we played Canal Mania, which none of us could remember all that well. At the end of the game Phil was exactly one ( Read more... )

On Tuesday I went shopping, and did a bit of Ingress along the way, and in the evening I went over to Petts Wood for an Ingress-related drink. It was a pleasant and not-to-late evening ( Read more... )