Category: Pic of the week

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Deck & Trellis

Deck 1Pick of the week 27/3/16

Two for the price of 1 this week!

(Deck & Trellis – sounds like the name of a pub)

A beautiful day on Friday (Good Friday), first day of my hols, and an opportunity to begin building my deck. The pic above just shows the planning phase – at this stage nothing has been dug, or fixed.  By the end of the day the first three pads were in place and the joists cut to size. Then, the next day, the rain came and outdoor work has been delayed since.

trellisAlso included this pic of me taking down a trellis panel as the deck will just overhang the bed.  Removing it should connect the two halves of the garden into one space.  Hopefully, when all is completed, one would forget that the trellis was ever there, so I though it important to include a pic of its destruction as a reminder of what went before.

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Gate

GatePick of the week 13/3/16

Spent a part of the day putting up our gate. Rather proud of the end result.

Blue skies, too! Perhaps Spring is bouncy its way along.

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Mother’s Day

Becky Sophie and SamPick of the week 6/3/16

Mother’s day – my two children with their Mum.

(Looking a bit like a GAP advert against the sheer white of our new kitchen!)

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I have the power …

Shower CartridePic of the week 28/2/16

… to fix the shower.

Perhaps not the most glossy of pics but we had our new shower installed on Monday and by Tuesday it was dripping like mad. And this annoyed me.

So I did my research and I drew the conclusion that the problem was centered around the shower cartridge. A replacement cartridge is circa £50, and I had resigned myself to buying a new one and replacing the one installed.  But before I did, I thought I’d try a little experiment.  I put the shower on full cold and turned it on and off a few times, adjusted the temp, back on full cold, on & off again: my theory being that the problem was probably caused by a bit of grit in the system, or the cartridge just not re-seating properly.

Anyway, it appears to have fixed the problem, so well worth a pic of the week!

I also adjusted the max temp (upwards), see pic below (turn anti-clockwise to increase temp: 90 deg. turn = approx 1 deg temp.)

Temp control(for future ref, here is the link to the PDF instructions for the Mira Pronta EV shower)

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Dormer

DormerPic of the week 21/2/16

I have resisted the temptation to post a hold load of pics of the build as pic of the week (would have been easy to do so) but felt that this one warranted inclusion. It shows the creation of the dormer window, with the view of the Tor in the distance.  A significant moment in the project.

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Snap!

Me and SamSam is growing too fast (and too much!)

We clearly share a common taste in “leisure wear”

I reckon I’ve still got half a foot on him, but he’s catching up fast!

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On the loo!

on the loo (768x1024)Pic of the week 24/1/16

How to spend a Tuesday evening in January. After 24 years, the romance is still alive!

Bought a bog in a box and a basin from B&Q. Livin’ the dream!

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Hedge Trimming

hedgetriming editedPic of the week 17/1/16

(although the pic was taken on 9/1/16!)

Chopped down a branch of the tree in the bottom right corner of the garden as it was obscuring the morning sun, then also trimmed down the long shoots of pyracantha that were doing likewise. (Very thorny!).  Still all needs tidying up, but was a rare dry day, an enjoyable couple of hours pottering in the garden in January.

Only blight was two dollops of cat cr@p on the lawn – seems my cat scarer is not as effective as I would have hoped. Now investigating prickly strips to put across the fence top and wall. The war continues!