Category: HOME & GARDEN
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Cat’s Winter Palace
It’s not completely finished but the vision is coming together nicely. Cat has already made the most of the opportunity as you can see.
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Autumnal man toys
The differences between men and boys are few and are often exaggerated. Both play with toys for example, only the type of toy changes in accordance with age-related structural and social factors. Here’s my latest toy (a leaf sucker) in action this morning… 🙂
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Cat camping
My tabby and white friend is an outdoor adventurer, so I fear him being stuck outside of an evening. Winters in the UK have been pretty mild in the last few years but cold snaps remain likely. I’m therefore putting together my solution: a super cosy outdoor den! It will be equipped with an igloo…
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Life without bars
I’ve been so busy lately that I failed to post about how I no longer live behind bars! It was not easy by any stretch of the imagination but I finally got the safety rail removed from the exterior of the living room patio doors (see below). My living room is located on the middle…
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The latest phase of decoration
Slowly but surely in the last few weeks the process of decorating the top floor master bedroom has begun. Two walls have been painted; those left white will be finished next year. One will be covered with a mural and the other will have wallpaper. As you can see two painted walls make a big…
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Home gym: mini renovation
As mentioned in an earlier post I won a TV a few weeks ago. Given that I only want one TV in the house it was a little bit redundant until I had the idea of shuffling things around in my home gym. It is now the centrepiece of the entertainment system, providing the music…
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Peak Garden
I always do my best to make the garden nice but went to special effort this year. Many trees were planted, although they will not mature for several years. In the meantime I have enjoyed the wonderful blooms of my hydrangeas, lilies, geraniums and roses. One day in the not too distant future it will…
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I won a raffle…I didn’t enter!
So yesterday I discovered I had won a TV in a raffle. What made this something of a surprise was that I hadn’t entered one. Turns out I was entered by colleagues which was awfully kind of them because I won the grand prize. 🙂 It’s the first time I have won anything in a…
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June 2020 in review
It’s easy to set macho targets, it’s less easy to achieve them. At the beginning of June I clarified 5 core objectives for the month. 3 out of 5 ended up as resounding successes (see photo montage), 1 of 5 was a narrow miss and the final target was 9% off (see “resource management” below).…
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Garden news: hard work pays off
Woke up to the delightful sight of my first lily flowering. Last year my crop didn’t come through before autumn set in, it simply wasn’t warm enough to get them over the line. I took it like a man and looked forward to them coming back around this year. I now have a bumper crop…
Dr Martin James 