Finally Spring is here in the glorious and fantastic way that its meant to be. The whole Winter dragging on thing, kinda put the garden into suspended animation of which it came out of in all its flower bursting open glory last week.
Still keeping my head down due to BIG AWFUL FAMILY THING which isn’t all that awful because its being handled with a great deal of grace. But it turns out that isn’t such a bad thing since I’m catching up with a number of things
A new avenue of interesting stuff has opened up within my role at work which is cool and what us curious and inquisitive IT types live for đ Shame the journey in and out (one and a quarter to two hours each way) is such an arse. Thankfully the new(ish) Nexus 7 is acting as a worthy Kindle replacement, now with added Pdf capacity, alongside my long-standing Ipod Classic for tunes.
The kids are blossoming, both are eating all that is put before them, even Henry who is Britain’s slowest eater because of his enlarged tonsils. Evie has just hit 6, and is a bright sparky, artistic and athletic ( two days of Gymnastics a week ) young girl. As more of Henry’s vocal bits get switched on, it gets rammed home what a little extrovert we have on our hands (and none of our other family members are extrovert – so its a bit of an eye opener) and quite funny and cheeky with it.
Well and truly settled into the house now, which means its going to be full steam ahead on sorting out the rooms that weren’t given a fresh start by the extension. The late arrival of growing season is a boon, for the garden is somewhat of a mess. Turns out the Landscape Gardeners, who the main Builders subcontracted , didn’t do a very good job. A good number of wall capstones and stairs paving stones have come loose as the mortar holding them on has disintegrated during the heavy autumn/winter rains. Oh and add on top of this the fact that THEY BURIED the old concrete paths and garden beds at the top of the garden beneath the new top soil (which was too shallow anyway). I’ve been chasing the Clowns to sort it out for about a month now, and while the Main Builder has been making all the right noises it hasn’t been fixed yet đ I know from dealing with them last year, after they had declared ‘we’ve finished!’ (back in Feb) and left us with a Snagging list made up of unfinished work, that things will take ages to sort now that we are not giving them money hand over fist. (Moral of story, never give Builders their final payment until they have done all of the work to your satisfaction). Despite me going on at great length I’m actually quite certain that it will get fixed, sooner rather than later, because I’ve become a lot more calmly assertive mainly from dealing with the Numpty builders. So thank you Numpty builders đ
D101 trundles on. This time last year I was barely at the wheel and didn’t know where I was going with it. Now I’m firmly back at the helm and about to create a bunch of pleasing abundance. Its nearly its 5th Birthday and we are nearly at title number 25 đ OpenQuest 2 is my main job at the moment and nearly done, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it đ
Overall there’s a real sense of healing going on in my life at the moment, a year later than I had originally hoped but its ace to be finally in that place đ