it's a been a funny old day

scorchio on one side of the house
and blowing a gale on the sea side.

the window man came to measure up and tell me how to sell my children to pay for it all.

i put some of my own efforts into scraping the nigh on 100 years of paint off the worst parts of the house.  it was surprisingly satisfying.  goodness knows what the over looking tourists must have thought of the white haired individual in flowing garb with a walking stick hacking away at the house...but no one came to arrest, or help me. 

Butch, my friend & gardener, came to mow the meadow having returned from a holiday in Turkey - which the whole family enjoyed - though it wasn't without incident.  he described the family's exit from Bournemouth Airport as something out of Shameless!  children can be such fun!

we have water flowing from under the new cooker, but after much discussion, the kindly Mister has determined that it's probably due to overdue de icing of the fridge freezer.  so we know what we're doing tomorrow morning.