Stuff This Week #95

Fluffy seagull chick nestled in a rooftop gutter against dark corrugated cladding. — We have two of these on our roofs at the moment! ❤️

Last week was focused on trying (and mostly failing) to beat the heat as we struggled with this European heatwave. 🥵

Stuff This Week #93

Red metal navigation marker atop a concrete groyne covered in green algae, extending into a grey sea under an overcast sky.

We’re in the middle of June already! Wow! Where did the time go!? A busy tech week with Not-E3 and Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference meaning there’s been a lot of news and videos to catch up on!

Bedroom renovations continue! My wife got these funky dangly cabled lights and some nice retro bulbs so I put them up on the wall today. Looking good! 💡

Stuff This Week #90

Close-up of bright pink roses and red flowers growing beside a textured stone wall covered in green ivy. A butterfly with orange and black markings rests on the flowers in sunlight. — 🦋

Heatwave! ☀️ We’re enjoying some wonderful weather this week and it’s fantastic to get out into it! Bank holiday weekend as well so Monday off 🥳

Painting done! 🤘furniture moved back into place.

Light fitting is loose for plastering and painting so I can put that back up properly tomorrow now and pick a new light fitting. Now just more furniture and hanging paintings etc… (and finding someone who can put our radiator back on lol)

A softly lit bedroom with pale pink walls, a wooden bed frame with striped bedding, and matching bedside tables on a light carpet.

A wooden bedside table beside a bed with pink striped bedding, with a window and pale pink wall in the background.

A tabby cat lying on pink striped bedding beside a wooden bedside table in a softly lit bedroom with pale pink walls.

Stuff This Week #88

A glass of iced matcha latte with a red-and-white striped straw on a café table, with drinks and cake blurred in the background.

An orange cat peeks around the corner of an old stone wall beside grass and small blue flowers.

Here! Have two post images this week! Why not?

A delightful Matcha at new local cafe The Pickle Jar and a cute cat I saw on the way home from the gym.

Sat waiting for our carpet fitter to arrive in a bit now to lay the new carpet in the bedroom.

Doing some general house tidying beforehand. Might be getting a super special delivery today as well 😳🤫

Stuff This Week #85

An empty room mid-renovation with stripped walls, stains, a window with a radiator below, and a step ladder on the carpet.

The same room with freshly plastered walls, tools and materials scattered on the floor, and a window with a radiator below.

🔨Yet another busy week! Decorations continue. Plastering is done. We had fun¹ installing some new skirting board where the fitted wardrobes used to be and we needed to get this done before our carpet gets delivered next week. Thankfully that’s all sorted now. Plaster is nearly dry now, so we’re going to hopefully start painting the undercoat middle of this week. Colourscheme is TBD. We’re thinking some sort of light sage green? Maybe…? If you have ideas or good sights for interior decorating/colour choices hit me up!

1 bedroom 100% emptied and ready for total re-plaster, new carpet and new furniture.

A restaurant table with a wooden sharing board of small dishes, including fried chicken, dips, bread, and a person eating in the background.

We were pretty tired by lunch when we finished so we went out for lunch. Tapas for me! 😋 (Bang bang cauliflower, fried chicken & whipped feta)

Bedroom Renovations Begin! 👷🔨

After a day and a half worth of graft with hammers, drills and screwdrivers our old grubby fitted wardrobes are now removed unveiling…. The grubby walls behind them! 😒

One bit of wood remains for now as there’s a plug socket and lamp behind them which we have booked an electrician to remove (lamp) and re-fit against the underneath wall with a nicer fixture (sockets).

Plasterer is coming to look and quote tonight for a full re-do of all walls and ceiling. Carpet company coming to measure on Thursday. Tomorrow we’re off to look at Furniture options in IKEA and John Lewis.

Being in this weird in-between phase is always messy. It was the same when we were redoing the media room. You feel like you’ll never be done and then suddenly it’s a fully functional room again and you wonder what all the fuss was about.

At least with the media room it was just a spare leaking room we didn’t even use so the disruption was kept to a minimum. With this being our bedroom the story is a bit different this time when it comes to doing all the work and re-arranging.

Thankfully with my eldest travelling Asia at the moment as well as the media room having a sofa bed we’re set up to have to move around as required.

Also, if I never see this goddamn bird wallpaper again in my life it will be too soon. I cannot wait to get rid of this. 🙅🦩

Anyway, time to rest my weary old bones now and wait for the plasterer to arrive!

Stuff This week #78

A black and white photograph of a tall smokestack with the word "BREWERY" written vertically on it. The smokestack is partially obscured by the roof of a building in the foreground. The sky is overcast, creating a moody and somewhat somber atmosphere. The image conveys a sense of industrial history and the passage of time. — Brewery 🍻

👆I’m still very much enjoying playing with the Halide Mk III Public Previews B&W mode. I’m very excited to see how it evolves and it’s great whilst one of their team members have left that they seem to just be moving forwards with an energy and purpose. Very good stuff to see.

🙇 I missed writing an entry last week as I just didn’t have the time! Sumimasen!

Chimney Chronicles Update!

After advising that the front chimney leaked again our builders have returned and performed the same level of repairs to the front as they did on the rear¹.

Follow up to my stuff this week blogpost yesterday about attempting some DIY.

New door handle? 🔨

Completed it mate… 👷😉

Stuff This Week #72

🦃🎄 Christmas is nearly here! At the hospital I work at the canteen does Christmas dinners every day in December, and as staff you get a discount. How could I resist!

If you wondered what an NHS Christmas Dinner looks like… Here you go 👍

We were joking that next year we should do some sort of charity challenge where we try and have one every day for as long as we can go. I think I might actually end up admitted to the hospital if I actually try that though! 😅

Hats off to the amazing canteen staff who make this happen. It must be such an operation to do this for a whole month for 100’s of people a day. 👏👏👏 Just one of the many parts clinical and non-clinical that makes the NHS so special.

Stuff This Week #71

It’s been a little while and it’s been a ride! So let’s get started. On a Thursday?!?! Yeh… well it’s been a while and I gotta fit it in, so here we go!!!

📷 Photo above from my younger son’s Rugby Team. They ask me and my eldest son to come and take pictures sometimes and then tell us they’re “sick pictures”. Especially if they look tough or heroic in them 🤣 Some Contrast highlighting and desaturation later and they’re loving the look of these and sticking them on their insta’s. 😎

Stuff This Week #65 - Double Edition

We’re getting some beautiful light at the moment 🌅

A Two For One entry as I skipped a week! 🙇

I have ordered a magnetic screen door for our sun room after having to rescue 10+ bees this week that have made their way into the house. Hopefully it makes a difference and is as easy to fit as they promise. 🤞🐝

My family were laughing at the mix of old clothes I wore to paint in today. It was the sleeveless hoodie I customised myself ✂️ that they don’t think I can pull off! 🤣

The image shows a man with a beard and grey hair standing in a kitchen. He is wearing a blue T-shirt featuring a colourful design of a waving cat, commonly known as a "maneki-neko" or "lucky cat." Over the T-shirt, he has a sleeveless grey hoodie. The kitchen has blue cabinets, with various items like plants, red teapots, and framed pictures visible in the background. The man appears surprised or amused.

Painting is well underway!

The image shows a person standing on a step ladder, painting a wall in a room. The room appears to be under renovation, with a partially painted wall and a messy floor covered with paint splatters and renovation materials. The person is wearing casual clothes with paint stains, indicating they are actively engaged in the painting task. There's a window on the right side of the room, allowing natural light in, and a three-bulb ceiling light providing additional illumination. — Don’t worry, that ugly light fixture is going 🔨

Speakeasy Door 📚🚪

Me staring at the door to the study room we’re renovating and thinking about stuff.

“Hear me out, what if we were to take this door… and, and make it look like a BOOKSHELF! With real books on it and stuff! It would be like a speakeasy with a secret door! That would look so cool!”

My long suffering wife of 20+ years then explaining to me we take the recycling out via this door and how a “trick door would make this so much more of a pain in the arse”.

She then asks if I would even know how do make this said door with me replying “……no?”

I swear she walked off just like Bunk in the wire 😂 🤣

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