Christmas 2019
Hold the back page. Grab a (large) drink. Sit down. Pinch yourself. As we approach Christmas 2019, our first in The Cottage, I am looking forward to it. I know, …
Six Months Back In The UK
Six (6) months today we walked through the doors of The Cottage. I wrote before about the reasons for basing ourselves back in the UK so I wont repeat them …
Drinking Less
Dawned on me the other day that I am drinking a lot less these days. Looking the photo below of our wine, whisky and gin ‘collection’ that may seem a …
Tower Bridge: Lego Build Tips
At 4295 pieces the Lego Creator Tower Bridge is a daunting build, made all the harder because this is the last model they released before doing the sensible thing and …
Dry January (Again)
I started work in September 1986, and following a rather excessive first Christmas at work and back home, added to a rather sedentary existence compared to life at College, I …
2019: A Summer Of Cricket!
As I mentioned when I wrote about basing ourselves back in the UK one of the many things I am looking forward to is going to cricket games again. Going …
Basing Ourselves Back In The UK
To explain why we are going to be basing ourselves back in the UK for the next chapter of our lives, it will probably help if I explain how it …
Ashes Tickets 2019
As a Yorkshire Cricket Club member I was entitled to purchase up to six (6) tickets for the first four days of the Ashes Test at Headingley next August. They …