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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 4, 2012
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The BBC weather service forecast is usually accurate if not dramatic in the presentation. We, as a country were warned of an impending snow storm that was going to cause unwanted disruption. The local forecasts are similar and we on the North West coast were told that everywhere would be affected. As it happens, here in Southport, all we have had all day is rain. The chances of it snowing here now due to the latest passing snowstorm are nil. That is not to say that other parts of my county, Lancashire, haven’t been affected, for they surely have been. If I were to drive away from the coast I am sure I would encounter some snow before I’d gone twenty miles. We have had bad winters before here in the North West and Southport has been snowed in but it is very rare. It is because we are right on the western coast and somewhat sheltered that we seldom get much snow. Last year folk recall that we had it bad but in actual fact it snowed for maybe two days where it froze and was compacted as ice for about two weeks which caused the problem. Tomorrow it will be icy under foot at least first thing in the morning as the temperatures are set to reach down to -1 C but during the day the temperatures are predicted to rise much higher to around 7 C. I hope so, I’m fed up being cold when out.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 13, 2012
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I haven’t really had much chance to see what is going on in the garden lately except at the weekend because my jury service commitment has kept me from home during the daylight hours. I remember looking around the rear garden on Sunday and seeing flowering plants in the border we created last Summer when we were working on the patio. It is pretty much sheltered from the prevailing westerly winds because of the garden wall which would help to keep them flowering for longer but it is January and not exactly the month to see flowering plants unless they are snowdrops. Daffodils it appears are sprouting up all over the country and there are some even as far north as Aberdeen according to one viewer on a television magazine program a day or so ago. It would seem that Spring has come early this year. Although it is still Winter we haven’t really had much wintry weather compared to what we are accustomed to. It is too early to say that we won’t get colder spells with snow and ice before the season is over or that it is too late in the season for it to happen but if we judge by what the plants are doing it appears unlikely. It it a good thing? Perhaps not. The reason I say that is the plants will be struggling to cope with the changes but more than that there is nothing to stop garden pests from flourishing in the mild weather. When the weather becomes cold it has the effect of curbing the growth or even killing off diseases and general garden pests that threaten a plant‘s developement, especially those we cultivate for food. The garden nevertheless looks fine and the grass is lush and flourishing too but no doubt so will the moss, clover and weeds! Our lawn isn’t that good! There will be plenty to do out in the garden soon enough not least of all replacing those plastic panels that the recent high winds blew out of the small greenhouse. Thankfully the large greenhouse has been unaffected but then it is a more professional affair with glass panels. I will be replacing the damaged plastic panels in the small greenhouse with glass in a few weeks time. There is much to do elsewhere before then.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 7, 2012
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I don’t have to remind my readers just how windy it has been these last few days. There has been little or no respite. Of all the weather elements wind is the one that I really dislike. Rain can be dealt with by using an umbrella or waterproof clothing but the wind sometimes defeats the use of an umbrella. Snow isn’t a problem until it becomes too deep or until it turns to compressed ice but having the correct footwear helps considerably and of course nobody moans when the sun is shining. It is the driving wind which gets me down. There is an old saying which has to apply and it goes like this: Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. A good spelling exercise for children but having an element of wisdom too. It really doesn’t matter what we think about the weather, nothing we can say will change it so we have to endure it when it is bad and be grateful when it is fine. Although I have been feeling somewhat windswept these last few days I know it won’t last, there will be better days ahead and so it is the same in life. We can be feeling down and thinking the whole world is against us. We can be feeling the pinch in these hard times. We can be experiencing bad relationships or having none at all. Many things in life can make us feel not at our best but they do help to build us up and give us the strength to go on. Wind or no wind, it doesn’t really matter but like the wind we must plod on regardless. Put on a smile, grin and bear it for things will surely get better and so will you.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 6, 2011
During the month of November we were told that we could expect the month of December to start off warm. November as it turned out wasn’t the hottest or warmest on record but it did come in second place for that title. Evidently there had been another year in which the month had been slightly warmer. It was expected that the warm weather would continue for the first two weeks into December but it didn’t. December is only a few days old and the weather is decidedly colder, wetter and more windy. Autumn is going out with a bang it seems. It is cold and Winter isn’t upon us yet! I wonder how cold it will be this time next month? Last year at this time almost everywhere was covered in snow and ice and it caught the local authority here quite by surprise. None of the roads had been gritted so even the main routes were treacherous to venture out upon. I remember trying to get to a house some 14 miles away and I turned back after one mile. That short journey took me well over an hour! I cancelled the appointment and went another time instead. As I write this it is Sunday morning and the view out into the street is quite bleak and I can hear the noise of the wind blowing over the chimney flue pipe making an eerie sound. 
The bare trees are swaying and the rain is falling heavily and beating against the window. Thankfully I am not going anywhere today, that is I haven’t planned on going out but the day is young. I am out at work tomorrow (Monday) and for the days ahead too so it is wrap yourself up well weather and keep yourself warm; and it’s not even Winter yet!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 16, 2011
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Before breakfast on Monday morning I walked up to the post box to post off my reply to the call of jury service I had received on Friday. The first thing I noticed was the change in temperature. Saturday and Sunday had both been warm and sunny but now it was cool, cloudy and damp, noticeably Autumn. There is much greenery in the street where I live as many of the trees do not shed their leaves but there are still many that do and they stand there in all their nakedness allowing light to shine to the ground beneath. The road is strewn with leaves and wet with the heavy dew from the cool night air. It is the right temperature now for the season. Somehow it doesn’t feel right to have high temperatures when most of the trees are bare. I like this time of year though, a time of rest, a harvesting of thoughts from the year that’s passed and preparing for harsher times ahead. Many people will be focusing on the preparations for Christmas in the next few weeks but I won’t be one of them. It is great to step off the treadmill and watch the antics of those around me struggling to make ends meet, worrying themselves over what gifts to buy and food to stock their larder with and all for one day! In the background Nature carries on as usual unaffected by it all and by which time Winter will have begun. Months of colder days and if we are unlucky, lots of snow and ice. I am glad to be living where I am though because we normally never have it as bad here as in the rest of the country. For now though the weather is fine and the temperature is just right.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 18, 2011
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This morning, Monday, I sat and watched the news and weather forecasts whilst eating my breakfast. Nothing unusual about that, I do it most mornings. It appears that the weather is going to turn nasty in the days ahead, wet and very windy and getting colder. According to the BBC we are in for hard times. When presenting the weather and the news too for that matter, I find the BBC an organisation that is over-dramatic in its presentation of events . For heaven’s sake, it’s just the news, it’s just the weather, just make the report and let us make the decisions as to how we react. To hear them talk about the weather for instance, we are going to find it difficult to get to work, keep ourselves warm and generally be able to cope with it all. It is October, it is Autumn, it is going to get colder when Winter follows on behind. It happens every year or have they forgotten? Even more annoying is the dramatic music they play when announcing themselves, the drum rolls between the headline announcements and the stern voices of the presenters. It makes it all sound like gloom, doom and despondency. How on earth are we going to be able to manage? Give me a break for heaven’s sake!
Life goes on, things happen, it’s all part of the scheme. Why make a song and dance of it all? I know of people who never watch the news on television or listen to it on the radio. They never buy newspapers and are not even connected to the Internet. Everything they know is by word of mouth or by their personal experiences. Their argument is that they have enough problems of their own to have to worry about what’s going on elsewhere or if the weather is going to be warm, dry, wet or windy. Whatever happens they just get on with their lives. They don’t need the hassle of information which does nothing to improve their lot. I admire that attitude to a point and it is one of the reasons I do not have an all-singing all-dancing mobile phone. I don’t take too much to heart what I see on the television and the weather will not stop me from living my life. Too much pressure begets too much pressure so I try to avoid it where possible.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 7, 2011
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Last week the weather was gloriously hot and sunny, actually too hot at times, for me anyway. This week the tables have turned and as I write it is very windy indeed with plenty of showers dotted throughout the day. The temperature has dropped dramatically from what we had (where I live) from 27 C to around 14 C. A bit of a change! Whilst I prefer the lower temperature it feels cooler because of the wind-chill factor. I can tolerate hot temperatures as long as I am inactive but I have always preferred the temperature to hover around 18 C. One thing you can say about the UK and that is that the weather can go from one extreme to the other in no time at all.
As a woman I like to keep any body hair to an absolute minimum so I use an epilator on my legs and also on my arms. I have to watch out for excessive growth on my face too and especially more so now I find as I get older. It’s funny that many older folk do start to grow ‘rogue hairs ’ so I keep things under control. A few weeks ago I bought myself a battery-driven hair trimmer for use in my nose and ears where hairs seem to be fond of growing. Everyone has facial hair and even hair in the nose and ears but as we get older they seem to get a second life and will grow profusely if we let them. How horrible! The trimming device is just the right thing to use and completely painless in use too. For the remainder of my face I resort to plucking any unwanted hair. Up until a year or so back I had electrolysis sessions to remove the unwanted hairs but there were so few of them I decided to cease treatment and pluck them myself as necessary. Now then I was using an ordinary mirror with good lighting and thought I had it all under control, a dark hair here, another there, one or two elsewhere and quite a few over my top lip were all plucked out easily. Doing this prevents the same hairs from appearing for at least five weeks, as is the case when an epilator is used. This is the normal hair re-growth cycle. Of course other hairs might be on a different cycle so one has to keep a constant check so that none are missed. To do this a magnifying mirror is more suitable but I have only a hand-held one. Nevertheless I had occasion to use the magnifying mirror to check on something else and whilst doing so noticed a fairly long hair under my chin that had obviously escaped my attention for a few days. I realised that I needed another but free-standing magnifying mirror and so I have placed an order over the Internet and now await its delivery. In the meantime I discovered many more hairs all over my face. All of them fair, to my relief, nevertheless some of those were longer than they should be I think. Looking at my face in a normal mirror reveals none of this so I am guessing that nobody else would see them either, especially as I do wear make-up all day, which is just as well I suppose. So, thinking I had no hairs to worry about suddenly changed to finding out that I had quite a few. Magnifying mirrors are wonderful things are they not? Every little blemish, hair, pimple, scar, pock mark is glaring at you and your otherwise beautiful soft skin suddenly looks like the surface of the Moon! Yuk! I’m glad that people do not have extra-sensitive vision else I would never go out! LOL.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 30, 2011
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The weather here in the UK is most unusually hot especially for this time in the year. The capital is the warmest place but even here on the west coast we have been enjoying temperatures of around 25 deg C. Extraordinary for the last couple of days in September and the forecast is for it to remain so into the weekend. Of course there is a lot of moisture in the air overnight which means the grass is wet where it is in the shade. We have not really had the opportunity to mow the grass over the last couple of weeks but this morning (Wednesday) I looked at it and decided that if I didn’t mow it today it might be too long for the mower to cope with it. We do have a motorised mower running on petrol but it is out of action so we have to use the less powerful (900W) electric one. I waited until the afternoon to allow the grass to dry out so in the morning I had a stint on the treadmill. At first the grass was fairly easy to mow but as I progressed up the garden it became almost impossibly difficult and I had to repeatedly switch the mower off and clear out the grass which was being compressed instead of being ejected because it was getting wetter as I moved along. This meant I had to stop and start the operation many times. It became unbearably hot and although I was wearing suitably lightweight clothing I was exhausted by the time I had finished. Normally it would take about forty minutes to mow the lawn if it was dry but this time it took me almost two hours! I had then to remove all the cuttings from the lawn because using the collection box for the cuttings was out of the question with the machine getting constantly blocked. Fortunately we have a lawn sweeping device which is mechanically propelled for collecting the cuttings but as I was already exhausted it wasn’t that easy to push it along and of course that had to be emptied about three times too. Altogether I was outside for three and a half hours. Who said gardening was easy? I suppose it would have been much easier had the weather been cooler and the grass drier. There will most probably be a need to cut the grass again in October and that should be the last time until next Spring. When I had finished I sat for a while on the garden bench and relaxed in the warm sunshine. It is most strange seeing the larger trees devoid of leaves with bright sunshine and high temperatures when normally it would be much cooler. Our weather gets stranger every year.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on August 11, 2011
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We were promised rain for yesterday and when I got up from my bed I discovered we hadn’t any! That is until I set off to work! It started as I was driving out of my garage and didn’t stop until I arrived at my destination. Whilst I was inside the house doing my thing there was again no rain to be seen. I finished the job by one o’clock but as soon as I started to drive back home it began to rain again. As I arrived back home the rain ceased but I had to go outdoors again, twice, to place items in the yet to be emptied re-cycle bin. Each time I stepped out of the door it rained. I was beginning to think that it rained only when I was outside but in fact it continued to rain for the remainder of the day, heavily really heavily! I suppose it is ok if you are a duck! Things are quiet on the home front and nothing has been done regarding the garage door but our eldest son dropped by the night before last with his ever-growing wife who is now just about half-way through her pregnancy and he is keen to help organising the fitting when he gets some time free. I am waiting to see his work roster so we can arrange a day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 18, 2011
I sat around most of Saturday nursing my poor swollen right foot. E had gone to her monthly ‘meeting’ with her competition friends or her ‘comp’ friends as I call them and all I could do was potter about if I wasn’t seated. Yesterday we planned to collect the extension ladder from our son’s house and I had gotten up quite early to do that. I had a nice soak in the bath, something that was denied me the night before and had eaten breakfast well before 08.30. I waited for E to come downstairs but she didn’t do that until 09.00. She seldom comes downstairs dressed but prefers to eat her breakfast first, however she was dressed and ready to go at 09.30. So off we went. It is a journey of around 26 miles through small villages and countryside, a pleasant ride to be sure. It was beginning to rain as we set off and by the time we reached there it was pouring down quite heavily. Just in time for me to put the ladder on the roof-rack and tie it down. We didn’t stop there long and soon we were on our way back home. The rain became heavier and we had to stop twice to re-secure the ladder. For some reason I had tied it too loosely, not usual for me! We drove back part of the way, the last four miles, along the coastal road. The tide was in, the sea looked very rough with plenty of white-topped waves whipped up by the strong on-shore wind. Visibility out at sea was poor and we couldn’t see the oil rig that stands about three miles off-shore. Very few people were out and about although there were some brave souls battling the elements! We made a left turn off the coast road with only three-quarters of a mile to home. The rain eased off a little whilst I off-loaded the ladder and then began to collect my tools from the other garage ready for work today. I decided not to work at home yesterday afternoon and have some more rest instead. My foot felt much better after walking about in my shoes rather than in the slippers I had been wearing over the last two days but there again I had not been able to get my right foot inside a shoe whilst it was swollen! The whole of Sunday was wet and miserable in the driving wind, a day to be spent indoors unless I had to go for a drive into the country! Good old English weather!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 7, 2011
The last couple of days have been a lot cooler than of late and it has been most welcome. I am not a hot weather person and prefer the temperature to hover around 18 to 20 degrees with an average humidity of around 50%. To me that is heaven on earth, besides which I can perform much better when working in these conditions. So over the last couple of days I have been able to complete many jobs in and around the new garage, one of which was the installation and plumbing of the water-butt, another was the ceiling above the passageway and the storage area above that which is inside the garage. We are making headway into completing the preparations for fitting the roller-shutter door (not before time – we have had it for well over ten years! Just hope it works!). I have plans to build a small office area inside the garage and to build some internal walls. Of course there is the electrical installation to do in there too but at least I have the power board installed ready. It was put there when I did the electrical supply to the patio. This part of the house and garden has been sadly neglected over the years but after much work it has at last begun to take shape. Still a lot to do but it is now all indoors. We still have to make a start on the wet-room but there is no immediate hurry for that to be done. You can see why I like the weather to be cooler, it keeps me occupied! Hot weather is for lazing about in, nice if you are having a barbecue but useless for working in. Give me cooler any day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 1, 2011
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Again the weather has been warm and sunny but where I live, not too warm. It looks as though it will remain this way for a few more days yet. Anyhow I have just awoken from a little ‘cat nap’ after having my mid-day meal. I had been working all morning and returned home around noon. As is usual for me after eating and sitting quietly in the lounge, I tend to drift off into a nice little sleep. Some say this is an age thing and to some extent they are probably right but it is also a fact that the body uses oxygen when digesting food and this can consequently make one drowsy. Whatever the main cause I like it! There is a lot to be said for this kind of relaxation. I suppose I could go for a walk as I have no intention of doing any further work today, even at home! The problem with walking about in this kind of weather is that it is difficult to stay out of the sun. Yesterday (Wednesday) I sat for a while in the sunshine and foolishly got sunburn on my upper chest, something I am usually very wary of doing. It is so easy to get burned if one is not careful. I don’t sunbathe as such but still get a light tan from just being out and about on sunny days so if I do go for a walk I need to cover myself up or make a concerted effort to stay in the shade! Not easy out on the street. It seems a shame to waste such a sunny day by staying indoors I have to admit for before too long it will be cold and miserable again. Officially we are in Summer of course but Autumn is only three months away! Tomorrow is another day and I am sure there will be plenty of time for me to get on with some work at home if nowhere else so for today I am having a rest. Maybe I will go for a walk or maybe I won’t but it’s nice to have that choice on this another sunny day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 29, 2011
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We are experiencing some really fine weather lately and it looks good for a few more days yet. We expect good weather at this time of year but we don’t always get it that’s for sure. However, with the warm weather and sometimes with raised humidity levels it becomes very tiring and exhausting getting through the day. With no work yesterday I was in no hurry to get out of bed again but did so reasonably early. That did not mean getting downstairs early though as I took my time getting dressed, made-up and doing other sundry things that one finds to do in the bedroom but often put off for another time. So I arrived downstairs around ten o’clock and was keen to do something around the house or garden. As the weather was gloriously sunny the garden option won the day but what was I going to do? We had prepared a corner of the vegetable plot next to the rear wall of the garage some weeks ago for the building of a small platform on which we were going to sit a water-butt or rainwater container. We had laid a small concrete foundation on which we could build a brick platform covered by a concrete paving slab in order to raise the container above ground level. So with the weather being good it was a golden opportunity to build that brick platform knowing that we would not be affected by rain showers. I prepared and collected all that I would need and made ready to start after lunch. I had it built in a very short time and cleared up the area. The preparation and clearing up took far longer than the job itself! I didn’t do any more work and spent the rest of the afternoon playing guitar then sitting out on the patio reading and relaxing in the sun. After my evening meal I was feeling rather drained but it wasn’t due to work. It is simply the weather, we are not used to the weather being so warm. I have always found that I work best when it is cooler and can last the course but if it gets too warm I suffer. There is no rush to do things these days which I find is a blessing. My whole life has become a slower affair, not that I am slowing down when I work but I am not doing as much work as I used to do. It is nice to be able to choose whether I will do something or not. I do have goals of course and will make every effort to reach them but one step at a time.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 4, 2011
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Yesterday morning, as planned, E and I went to buy the windows for the garage and the plastic trim and the sill (for one of the windows), which we will fit ourselves. The day was hot and sunny, a day for relaxing and doing nothing. I had plans to dine out with a friend and she arrived a few minutes after midday. E was staying at home, though I had invited her to come along. We left around one o’clock and drove the fifteen or so miles to a place E and I often go. My friend has been there too whenever we have chosen to celebrate a birthday or other event there. We enjoyed a lovely meal together and were in no rush to return home. When it came to pay the bill my friend went to the toilet whilst I paid it. She had given me her share in cash but I intended to pay by card, a debit card rather than a credit card. I opened my purse but could not find the debit card. I have three debit cards and one credit card but the card I wished to use just wasn’t among them! The previous day I had used the card to buy the telephone extension lead and I know I had it with me when I returned home. Not wishing to use either of the other two debit cards I was forced to use the credit card instead. No problem, it just meant that I had to transfer funds from the current account I would have normally taken the funds from to the one that pays my credit card by Direct Debit. I do that via the Internet. I am at a loss as to where the debit card might be but rather than worry about it I telephoned the bank and had it cancelled. They will send me a replacement in a few days. I was a little annoyed that I had misplaced the card but that is just one of life’s minor problems. I paid the bill and we both left for home. My friend stayed for an hour or so as we sat in the patio and chatted over a couple of drinks. E was busy at the other end of the garden doing some weeding and planting but she joined us after a short while. The weather remained warm and sunny until sunset but my friend had returned home and we had returned indoors. Although I like the weather to be warm and sunny I am not overjoyed about it being too warm. I get hot and bothered if it gets too warm. Today looks like being a hot day and I have work to do in the garden. I am not looking forward to that. Fortunately the work I want to do (sifting the soil in the vegetable plot) will be done in the shade if I do it in the morning. Having said that I am signing off to do it!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 31, 2011
I know, I shouldn’t complain about the weather and really, I don’t but I just wish it would stop raining for a while. Purely selfish reasons I confess, I simply want to finish off the work I have outside. Despite the weather though E and I have done much work around the outside of the house. During the last few days we have completed many things. There is one thing we would really like to do though and that is to paint the concrete floor in the patio. We have the epoxy paint to do the job but we require a day or so of dry weather to carry it out. We also need to sift/filter a small area of the soil in the vegetable plot so that E can plant out some more vegetables but this also requires dry weather. Have you ever tried sifting wet soil? Life is moving along at a leisurely pace lately with little occupational work coming in and a relaxed attitude to the tasks we undertake at home. I am not complaining about that though! A day or so ago I set about making and fitting a window frame to fit the rear opening in the new garage. I say ‘new’ garage to distinguish it from the other one which has been there twice as long! The ‘new’ garage is the one on the left of the house as you look at it from the front. Behind this garage is the vegetable plot and behind that, the patio. The greenhouses lie behind the other garage.
These pics were taken last year when we were having major works done on the house. I have no recent pics of the garages. In the right-hand picture you can see the rear window opening and another window opening at the front. Since this picture was taken a wall has been built to replace the dry-stone wall on the left of the raised flower-bed which protrudes directly beneath the window opening. The large sprawling plant growing on top of the raised bed has been removed because we are having it paved as it is under the window near to the old garage. Just to the left of this new wall and directly beneath the window opening is where we fitted the outside tap a few days ago. It used to lie behind that sprawling plant and was difficult to reach! Now that I have fitted a window frame to the rear of the garage I can have some uPVC windows fitted to match those on the house. I will probably have them made but fit them myself. Well I can’t stay bored now can I?
Shirley Anne
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