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So after  May's post about conservatories and scaffolding , I can report that the new conservatory is rather impressive. Wickes had an offer on decking, so we did that at the same time too. Getting the glass roof in place required the help of a friend who had the sucky-pad things they use to handle glass (in return Andy fixed the electrics in his mobile chip van - the complexities of small village living in England!). Carpet went down last week and we've just ordered a small sofa bed, so finally we will have useable extra room with a nice view of the garden and somewhere to go with my laptop. I've noticed over the past six months or so that I've stopped using my desktop pc completely. When we moved here, I couldn't contemplate not having my own desk, with my little supply of pens/stationery/desk tat. It was bad enough giving up my study. But then we had covid and we were all working from home, and even though I had a desk in the dining room end of the lounge, I ende...

In an effort to forget that April 2022 ever existed, I’m going to try to find something upbeat and positive to fill my blank screen today. Last month was stressful, dealing with elderly parents, emergency hospitalisations and Alzheimer's. I’d like to thank our very own Julia Jones, without whose help and advice on John’s Campaign , I’d never have had the knowledge and mental fortitude to stand-up to NHS bureaucracy, and my dad would have been left alone in hospital for over a week with no visitors … Julia – you have my eternal gratitude.  Moving onwards to May and I sit here looking out of my dining room window to a large blank space where the conservatory used to be ... Well I say conservatory - it was more of a lean-to with a polycarbonate roof, blown double-glazed windows and single-skin leaky, rotten wood base panels. A room that was impossible to heat in winter as it lost heat faster than it warmed up! So we took it down last week. Or rather Andy did. Then - while we had the ...