Several years ago, we were driving back home from a shopping trip and crossing the Grand Union Canal which runs close to our house. As we crested the hump-back bridge over the canal, we were surprised to see a grey…
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Wasp Nest Anatomy
All was quiet in the eaves above our bedroom window this morning and I could see no wasps flying around our attic space so it looks as though the Doff Wasp Nest Killer has done its job once again. Somehow,…
Wasp Wars
It’s our caravanning neighbours’ turn to be away for a couple of weeks. We reciprocate looking after each others gardens while the others are away. Yesterday morning Carol noticed a sizeable hole in one of their flower beds together with…
It Seems to Work
‘T was a good day with some sun and the occasional cloud so we decided to go and use our Whipsnade Zoo season tickets and see if the animals would cooperate for the new camera. Whipsnade also has a brand…
Game for a Laugh
We used to have a very good butcher in Leighton Buzzard called Downhams. Regrettably for us, some time ago the very pleasant chap who ran it, Owen, stopped doing so and retired (I think). What made it stand out from…
Plethora of Parsley
Morrisons supermarket seems to sell parsley by the ton. On Saturday, I needed some to sprinkle onto my Merluza a la Plancha and to mix into the accompanying Spring Vegetables. That left me about 19cwt (19 hundredweight, for those unfamiliar…
Fiscal Freeze
Well, here we are, at the dawn of a new financial year so we can now salt away a little more cash into tax-free ISAs to keep the interest from the grabbing hands of our b*****d tax man. (That was,…
Alpine Allergy
We’ve been the less-than-proud owners of an HP deskjet 940C printer for a few years. It prints mostly OK, though there are times when it has a tendency to misalign text making it look oblique. It’s most irritating feature however,…
Technological Tantrums
Things used to have an uncanny knack of going wrong when I was travelling to the States on business. Poor Carol would be left with a broken something to sort out and with no moral support. It seems to be…
Cover-up Saturday
(Posted out of sequence by popular demand.) After getting Billy serviced on Wind-up Friday, Cover-up Saturday was time for Carol and I to try and put his blanket back on without the assistance of a pair of tall, strapping American…
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