Alan Williams's Blog, page 35

Quick Links 3rd December 2017 ☃️

[image error]Merry Christmas, okay well maybe not just yet. Greetings!

Our Christmas tree went up early (for us), normally we start on putting up the Christmas tree and other decorations on the first weekend of December, but this year because of our family arrangements we need to be a little bit ahead of our normal routine. This means that we’ve pretty much finished our Christmas shopping – with the exception of groceries etc. – and we’re progressing with decorations. I suspect I’ll still be glad when it’...

Quick Links 3rd December 2017 ☃️

[image error]Merry Christmas, okay well maybe not just yet. Greetings!

Our Christmas tree went up early (for us), normally we start on putting up the Christmas tree and other decorations on the first weekend of December, but this year because of our family arrangements we need to be a little bit ahead of our normal routine. This means that we’ve pretty much finished our Christmas shopping – with the exception of groceries etc. – and we’re progressing with decorations. I suspect I’ll still be glad when it’...

Quick Links 3rd December 2017 ☃️

[image error]Merry Christmas, okay well maybe not just yet. Greetings!

Our Christmas tree went up early (for us), normally we start on putting up the Christmas tree and other decorations on the first weekend of December, but this year because of our family arrangements we need to be a little bit ahead of our normal routine. This means that we’ve pretty much finished our Christmas shopping – with the exception of groceries etc. – and we’re progressing with decorations. I suspect I’ll still be glad when it’...

A Christmas Book List

I’ve read a lot of books this year, and I thought with Christmas approaching I’d pull together a list of those that I’ve enjoyed the most in case you’re stuck for a present to buy someone or just looking for something to read over the festive period yourself. Some have been published this year, but others have been around for a while. Links are to the books page on GoodReads, rather than a particular online or other bookseller. I’m sure you can work that bit out, but I’d recommend your local...

Quick Links 26th November 2017

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Welcome to a frosty part of the world (at least it is at the moment as I type, but I suspect it will be unseasonably warm again soon enough). It feels like it’s been busy this week and time has been passing quickly.

I’ve been doing a few jobs around the house and garden this week, trying to tidy things up for winter. Still plenty to do but it’s getting there.

Work – I’ve had meetings in Southampton this weeks as well as some telephone conferences all related to potential work. Nothing that...

Quick Links 19th November 2017

Greetings! As I mentioned last week it was the anniversary of my Dad’s death this week. We went to where his ashes are scattered and spent some quiet time there, and that’s where my thoughts have been for a lot of the week.

Otherwise it’s been a little bit of an odd week. Our cooker died quite spectacularly on Tuesday (including sparks) it was the oven that was the problem, so we still had the hob that we could use. We have a domestic appliance store in town that is a non-chain business, and...

Quick Links 12th November 2017

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Greetings from the house with fresh paint on (some of) the walls – yes that’s right this week I’ve been doing a little decorating. It’s really to freshen up a couple of spots, but we’ve got some plans to do more after Christmas, once we’ve decided on the colour. I’ve been painting, walking the dogs and doing mostly domestic stuff this week.

We seem to have shifted our colds and bugs too which is good, I hate being sick, who doesn’t!

The week ahead is the anniversary of my Dad’s death. I reme...

Quick Links 5th November 2017

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Greetings From The Plague House – where we all seem to have come down with something, even the dogs are coughing and sneezing. I blame the event I was at last Monday, where I spent most of the evening in the lee of a draughty doorway.

Not only is this weeks post a little later in the day as a result it will also be a bit shorter than usual.

As well as the clocks going back last weekend, and we’re now on Greenwich Mean Time again, but we’re also celebrating the failure of someone to blow some...

Quick Links 29th October 2017

 

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Life In General – I spent the start of my week clearing gutters around the house and pruning trees. I had a bit of different perspective from up on part of our roof (above), it’s amazing how much more you can see from just a couple of extra metres up. It was good to get some of these chores done, as I’ve felt a bit on the back foot with some of them recently.

I also had to take Wilson to the vet mid-week. He mysteriously started limping on Monday, and despite doing all of the usual thing...

Quick Links 22nd October 2017

[image error]Life In General – Well this week started out a little weird. Ex-Hurricane Ophelia was forecast, although we missed the worst of the winds and rain, she did bring a lot of Saharan sand with her, leaving some truly odd skies during the day. Sadly Ophelia claimed three lives, and did quite a bit of damage [LINK] elsewhere. We also had storm Brian at the end of the week, which for us was a bit of a blustery day and like the start of the week we missed the worst of the storm.

Had my flu jab during...