Monthly Archives: August 2013

Let the Train take the Strain

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Off to Carlisle in the morning, at least this will be on the train most of the way.  This last week has been a bit of a strain.  One day in Doncaster, the next day in Bournemouth, and then back to Doncaster the day after.  Putting a few miles on the old Citroen, hopefully it will see my working days out.

Also had sleepless nights this week.  The A41 was closed for road resurfacing in Waddesdon overnight for the last week.  The sound of silence was a tad disturbing, lay awake at night wondering when the next vehicle would come by, they never came, so couldn’t get to sleep.

I did a little bit of work on the Blasdale website this weekend.  Upgraded to a  version 3.6 of WordPress, and a new version of Nextgen Gallery, 2.0.  Nextgen 2.0 has a new way to implement galleries, and a really quite nifty gallery display which works on mobile phones with the swipe action.  Love it.

No new pictures, but hope to get the Cambridge Society visit to the Malverns online this week.

Larder Envy

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IMG_2824Several months ago, Rosemary had a serious case of larder envy (seems to affect ladies of a certain age) after seeing a friend’s. She came home and sighed at her larder shelves built of fronts of old wardrobes, bits of tongue and grooved, brick supports and even spare end pieces from new kitchen. She wrote a to-do list item and began her search.

She was triumphant and now has the larder of her dreams complete with three roll-out wooden boxes, one of which is a snazzy two drawer vegetable rack. The larder is under the kitchen stairs and the shelves have been designed so you can stand right inside and hence see everything and reach into the full depth.

IMG_2825Designer and maker, in oiled ash, was Mark Williamson of Mark Williamson Furniture.

She’s crossed the “larder shelves” item off her to-do list.

But shelves are an addiction…….