Monthly Archives: November 2007
The end of summer…
…it had to come sometime I suppose. You can’t spend your life swanning around in boardshorts and Hawaiian shirts forever you know. Coinciding beautifully with my loverly infestation of lung molluscs the heavens opened and God did spew his wrath upon the tiny campers below. AD was trapped in his miniature motorhome during the onslaught [...]
Man flu…?
I should be so fricking lucky. Having spent several days talking like Steven Hawking and pretending that the huge lumps of greeny/browny seafoodesque mucus hurling from my lungs were completely normal I’ve taken medical advice (Huwj is a fully qualified psychotherapist) and been to the pharmacy to get some antibiotics strong enough to reanimate most [...]
Waffles and ice cream…
Slightly fogged by a touch of man-flu my week has drifted past – I’ve battled through this hideous affliction and managed to extract myself from my duvet and thrust bravely into the social domain a few times. Dinner on wednesday was a luxurious affair – a circular table in one of the best restaurants on [...]
Swings and roundabouts…
For some considerable length of time my home in Cha has been a haven of tranquility and peace. This could be read as deathly quiet and mind-numbingly boring. So I would get my ‘fix’ of sociability during my breaks at the beach – a crowded campsite and lively bars… A couple of weeks ago my [...]
A lick of paint…
…all I need to do is run the drains, concrete the floors, pitch the roof, insulate, tile and gutter. Then run the electrics and plumbing, build walls, floors and ceilings. After that I might do some plastering, rendering, jointing, painting and decorating. Following that I could fit some sinks, basins, baths, showers, taps, a washing [...]
Anybody here like dolphins…?
There are those who don’t like dolphins. Understandable I guess – swimming around the planet without a care in the world. Frolicking around in the water, doing somersaults and flips, twists, turns and generally dossing about having a good time. Jealousy is a powerful thing so a modicum of animosity toward these good for nothing [...]
A conversation, briefly…
Halfway through shovelling and barrowing a mountain of rubble and broken bricks from one end of a building site to another AD turned to me and said… ‘I love doing this shit…’ ‘Why’s that?’ I enquired, slightly bemused. ‘Well – I feel like I’m working hard…’ ‘Uh huh’ ‘It makes me sweat a lot…’ ‘Er [...]