Sitting in the swamps of Strathmore watching the rain battering on the window, trees tossing in the wind, girding my loins...both of them...thinking about our next trip south, which starts this afternoon.
My efforts are pale imitations of some of the trip reports that grace these pages, but come along if you want...
View through my new window...when we moved here, the bedroom had a perfectly adequate window but not getting the sun.
So we had a new one put in, facing SE, and getting what sun there is all day.....not much today!
A nice chap over the road works for a double glazing firm...the same one that put the windies in before we bought the place, so I got another to match at trade price, someone else I knew did a cash job, taking a Stihl saw to the walls and inserting the window and made good, my contact got me the internal sills facings and trim for a bottle of vodka(!), which I put in after the inevitable decoration....I've now done every wall in the place in the 21/2 years since we bought it!
Anyhow bits and pieces to do before we set for off...
My efforts are pale imitations of some of the trip reports that grace these pages, but come along if you want...
View through my new window...when we moved here, the bedroom had a perfectly adequate window but not getting the sun.
So we had a new one put in, facing SE, and getting what sun there is all day.....not much today!
A nice chap over the road works for a double glazing firm...the same one that put the windies in before we bought the place, so I got another to match at trade price, someone else I knew did a cash job, taking a Stihl saw to the walls and inserting the window and made good, my contact got me the internal sills facings and trim for a bottle of vodka(!), which I put in after the inevitable decoration....I've now done every wall in the place in the 21/2 years since we bought it!
Anyhow bits and pieces to do before we set for off...
Promise of brighter skies....
