Category: HOME & GARDEN
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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…
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Garden makeover rolls on…
Nobody can do it all, the notion that anybody can is a myth peddled by privileged types who have a (concealed) army to do it all for them. I have no such army and I don’t especially want one, my standards are too exacting and I would end up re-doing it all anyway. Moreover, there…
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Small steps
In amongst the madness of the last few months I have still hoped to see progress on the home front. This print is the anchor piece of my new look mid-floor hallway. I haven’t taken a picture of it yet that really captures how striking the colours are. It will look even better once the…
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Garden makeover weekend #2
Another super busy gardening weekend. The most substantial task was to put down 20 bags of blue slate over the tired pebbles that came with the house. I also made it to a recycling centre to dispose of my garden waste (no small accomplishment these days!), fixed my shed and sorted out the gap between…
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Amateur gardening weekend
It was the right time to get some cyclical and long-term garden work done. The perfect after pictures will take a few weeks because to make an omelette you have to break some eggs. Planting/uprooting trees is a messy business, in the immediate sense you have to go backwards to go forwards. Like most things…
Dr Martin James 