We have a yellowhammer somewhere nearby and I have seen it in the (absolute) tops of the fir trees - which seems to be one of the...

One afternoon this week, and in a fit of idiocy, I started "moving a few things around" in the basement. We had purged the "car parking"...

Where we are up at 400-odd metres on the south side of the sierra blanca is a little bit breezy. Actually it is more than just a bit...

Ha! that caught your attention! However the jet is actually the jet-washer (Lidl´s as you didn´t ask) which has now been in use for about...

All the patio and building work has been done and now we wait for the painter. I have never quite understood why builders can´t put on a...

Yesterday was all about cement. The lads spent the whole day mixing and spreading cement as the new foundation. About the only building...

I can remember when I was one of the Quality Management courses that there was a tale of how Komatsu set out to be the number one earth...

Had a visitor yesterday morning when I was starting to tidy up the "new" flower beds. This little butterfly came and had a close look at...

Well, flushed by the success of my QZT purchase, I decided to add another one to cover the back door and patio. Because it is on a...

For some time I have had a security camera system comprising a Mac app connected over the LAN to some Foscam cameras. In my time I have...

Finally managed to get my appointment with the barber this morning, although I had to wait in the street for over half an hour as I was...

I may have mentioned before that try not to be possessive and would happily give almost anything to someone else who really needed it....