where eagles fear to perch

Older readers may recognise the title from a 1971 television advertisement for PG Tips tea,  one of a series featuring chimpanzees.  Althou...

Firstly, a little quiz.    Take a look at this photo of these brand new light fittings I've bought, and the sealed boxes they came in, ...

Well, not strictly true, since we've already eaten a few radishes... This year we did something we'd often read about, but never ...

Ever since we bought the piece of land a few years ago to extend our garden, we'd been thinking about building something at the south e...

It's been two months since I lasted shared the combined portfolio, mainly because most of the immediately preceding posts were all very...

I thought I'd use some of our remaining static caravan windows, originally procured as a joblot a few years ago to make solar panels, t...