Ravendale House

By the time I went to bed on Monday night I was sick to death of the sight of fridge/freezers, measurements and cubic capacities were running round my head, but I couldn’t ignore the fact we still didn’t have one and time was running out.

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I’ve often worried, during the power cuts we get here from time to time, about the food in the freezer and how long it would last, should the power not return within a reasonable time scale, say 12 hours or so.  Well not any more.

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Well April really has been a wash-out. Apart from planting out my peas and broad beans, I’ve done no gardening. In an attempt to stave off the boredom, I’ve been adding to my limited HTML code writing skills by learning how to do tables.

Here you will find a selection of my favourite things in table form. How cool is that? Just mouse over the pictures for full details.

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At the end of March I was struggling to keep my seedlings watered and protected from the sun. A week later I was struggling to keep them warm and protected from frost!

Although it has warmed up slightly and the sun is shining from time to time, there is a wickedly cold wind, so whilst I’m waiting for some warm weather to return, my thoughts have turned to indoor pursuits.

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After the success of Stage 1 of our new project, (doing up the old settle) we decided to make Stage 2 more interesting by making it into a sort of game. All the work and improvements we’d done so far had been done from bits and pieces we had in ‘stock’ and hadn’t cost us a penny. The challenge now was to complete the entire project in the same vein.

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A few days ago I wrote about the newly delivered oak settle that is to be our latest project, and how I was initially disappointed at the shabby state it was in. I needn’t have worried.

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Watching the news these days can be a very depressing business. Sometimes you just want something to make you smile, and to that end I share with you this cute little picture that I came upon the other day.

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There’s nothing we like better than an interesting ‘project’ to get stuck into. Over the years we’ve embarked on many, but perhaps as a result of getting old or just becoming more discerning, we haven’t had a good project on the go for a while.

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On Saturday we did something we’ve never done before, we went on board a Royal Navy minesweeper. HMS Grimsby was visiting her adopted port for the weekend and was open to the public between 11am and 3pm. As that is only half an hour down the road from here, we thought we’d have a look.

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When I was growing up in Halifax back in the 1960′s our house had a solid fuel fire with a fire-back boiler. I don’t know if such things even exist these days, but anyway, one day the fire-back boiler burst and water came flooding into the dining room.

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