
Thursday, February 26
The Stairs...the stairs....
Deco Door Furniture

Does anyone know the story behind this?
New Life

Tuesday, February 24
Forty Winks

It's a hard time of year to be a sheep dog...(I spotted this one when I went to get some veg. at Foxbury Farm).
Sunday, February 22
Sausage Seeking Missile


Metropolitan Madness
They were staying in the Marriott by Regent's Park, so I decided to take the coach down to Hillingdon; then Metropolitan Line to Finchley Road; then one stop to Swiss Cottage on the Jubilee Line.
However, I hadn't checked and turned up at Hillingdon to find that part of the Metropolitan line was out for repairs, and all of the Jubilee. If I'd been thinking straight, I'd have hopped back on the coach, but I wasn't! So I took the Piccadily Line to Rayner's Lane; bus from Rayner's Lane to Wembley Park; one stop on the Metropolitan to Finchley Road (handy for the Freud Museum), and legged it down to Regent's Park to meet everyone at the 'Honest Sausage Cafe'.
I stopped briefly to take this pic of the Swiss Cottage, at Swiss Cottage. It satisfies me on a very profound level that Swiss Cottage has a Swiss Cottage.
Sadly, I could stay with everyone not much longer than an hour or so then make my way home (the return journey was somewhat easier: no30 bus to Marble Arch; then pick up the coach from there).
I shouldn't have been surprised really - chaos normally accompanies any meeting with the Maskery-Hopkinson clan. :-)
Friday, February 20
Balliol Dragons

On Tuesday morning, my eye was drawn to this little chap - curled in the top right hand corner of Balliol's main door arch.
Sunday, February 15
These are the good old days!
We now have to save all our pennies so we can go out to visit them.
For Virginia

Don's Coins

Friday, February 6
The Andrew Watson Memorial Bathroom - Progress Report 4

Apologies for the blurry pics - but these are quick camera snaps. What a difference a day makes! We now have a shower screen rather than a manky shower curtain - and soon the 'unhygienic' (to quote La Marrison) tortoise light pull will be retired in favour of something chrome.
Annoyingly, we need just need one blue tile and two of the 'dado rail' tiles to finish it. Thanks heavens they're made in Huddersfield, so Adam or his Dad can pick them up from the trade counter next week. Rather than wait two weeks or more for delivery and pay full carriage costs.
Thursday, February 5
The Andrew Watson Memorial Bathroom - Progress Report 3
As you can see the bathroom is coming on apace.
Snow at the Boatyard
Wednesday, February 4
The Andrew Watson Memorial Bathroom - Progress Report 2
There will be more tiles above the 'Dado rail' above the bath.
As you can our tradesman bows his head in my presence, as is only right and proper :-),
Tuesday, February 3
The Andrew Watson Memorial Bathroom - Progress Report
However, the bathroom at no29 has been slowly rotting away, so the joke was on us. Although finding a slug on the bathroom wall first thing in the morning isn't a joke (and too think that I've also been rude about NB Bones' bathroom).
The Boy and I have finally been able to scrape together enough cash to deal with it, and just in time as you can see from the floorboards.
Monday, February 2
View from the Oxford Technogarret

For Virginia

Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)