It seems to surprise me when I come back here and see how long it is since my last blog. I always promise myself that I'll be more regular in my postings.
I've been busy as always. Some things have gone well others have seemed to grow to fill the time available to them.
An example is that I decided to repaint the railings and wall round two sides of our front garden. All that it seemed to require was to wire brush the rust of a few patches of the railings, scrape the loose white paint off the wall and then repaint both the railings and the wall. I realised that there were three breaks in the railings so I bolted them together and started to scrape the wall. It was then that I found out that the coping stone is in two sections and very loose and the railings are not really secure. I've now prepared it so next week I can fix some timber shuttering and pour a layer of concrete over to increase the thickness of the coping stones by about 50 to 60mm. I think that this will mean it is all solid and should last for many years. I have to cut back the honeysuckle which will grow again but even worse we had a lovely cotoneaster bush in the corner and I had to cut that back a lot to enable me to reach into the corner of the wall and fence. I hope it recovers quickly and grows back to its former glory.
As well as his I've started to pre-record some radio programmes. I work shifts in a call centre so can not have a regular time to record a show, or broadcast one live, so I am pre-recording with the idea of having three or four programmes ready so I can then record one or two most weeks and I expect them to start being broadcast on a Thursday evening with a repeat on a Friday. I plan to base each programme on a part or Glasgow or some event from the city's history.
We've managed to eat out a few times, for our wedding anniversary we went to our favourite Indian restaurant and had a great meal, and we are going back there tonight. Yesterday after doing some radio news reading we went for an Italian meal. It is so good when restaurants are willing to make small changes to their menu to ensure that our food is vegan.
Tomorrow I should get those railing painted and on Saturday we are walking along footpath that follows the River Clyde up to Cambuslang. This is a walk organised by our church minister and I hope a good crowd turn out and enjoy the sunshine that is promised for that day.
Sunday I'm working but there is a folk concert on the Tall Ship in the evening so I think we will go there and enjoy some good music. I sometimes find it hard getting up at 05:30 after a late night but I refuse to let my shifts stop me enjoying life.
Thursday 28 May 2009
Friday 8 May 2009
A week off work
I’ve had a week off work and the original idea was to go walking and camping but we eventually decide to stay at home and do a lot of work in our garden. The greenhouse was full of small plants that needed transplanting and I wanted to reply the drive where we park the car.
The weather has been atrocious, gales and heavy rain. I’ll try to go through the week day by day, or flood by flood.
Saturday was good, we went to Oran Mor, a Glasgow pub and listened to some live music which was part of an outside broadcast by Celtic music Radio. http://www.celticmusicradio.net/ We then went to Mono and had some great vegan food with friends before retuning to Oran Mor for more music and chat.
Sunday did not start well. A neighbour told me that at about 02:00 someone had taken two of the mono-blocks that I’d had delivered for my new driveway and thrown them through his greenhouse smashing a number of panes. I was pleased to be able to give him some of my spare greenhouse glass but it was till annoying that anyone could do that.
Monday I got the base levelled ready for the drive and hired a vibrating plate to compact it all.
Tuesday I started early and managed to get all the mono-blocks laid despite heavy rain at times. I’m not sure if I laid the blocks on sand or floated them on water.
Wednesday I went over the mono-blocks with the vibrating plate and it all seemed good and solid but not as level as I’d have realty liked. We then went shopping at B&Q, (10% off on a Wednesday for me). Anne had to go to a meeting and my plan was to go and record a radio show but it did not happen as the studio was too busy. We went out for a meal and then to the Tall Ship for a great Celtic music concert.
Thursday we cleared up a lot and stacked the spare mono-blocks and a lot of other bricks and blocks that we had around the place. Two trips to the local tip got rid of the old broken slabs. We managed to freecycle a lot of the good slabs and other things. This was followed by as trip to a garden centre where we bought a lot of essentials including a lovely vegan meal.
Friday has been at home and hardly venturing outside as it has been heavy rain most of the day. It is only 15:15 and we are planning to go to a concert in Rutherglen Town Hall tonight. One of the artists is Ciaran Dorris http://www.ciarandorris.com/
The weather has been atrocious, gales and heavy rain. I’ll try to go through the week day by day, or flood by flood.
Saturday was good, we went to Oran Mor, a Glasgow pub and listened to some live music which was part of an outside broadcast by Celtic music Radio. http://www.celticmusicradio.net/ We then went to Mono and had some great vegan food with friends before retuning to Oran Mor for more music and chat.
Sunday did not start well. A neighbour told me that at about 02:00 someone had taken two of the mono-blocks that I’d had delivered for my new driveway and thrown them through his greenhouse smashing a number of panes. I was pleased to be able to give him some of my spare greenhouse glass but it was till annoying that anyone could do that.
Monday I got the base levelled ready for the drive and hired a vibrating plate to compact it all.
Tuesday I started early and managed to get all the mono-blocks laid despite heavy rain at times. I’m not sure if I laid the blocks on sand or floated them on water.
Wednesday I went over the mono-blocks with the vibrating plate and it all seemed good and solid but not as level as I’d have realty liked. We then went shopping at B&Q, (10% off on a Wednesday for me). Anne had to go to a meeting and my plan was to go and record a radio show but it did not happen as the studio was too busy. We went out for a meal and then to the Tall Ship for a great Celtic music concert.
Thursday we cleared up a lot and stacked the spare mono-blocks and a lot of other bricks and blocks that we had around the place. Two trips to the local tip got rid of the old broken slabs. We managed to freecycle a lot of the good slabs and other things. This was followed by as trip to a garden centre where we bought a lot of essentials including a lovely vegan meal.
Friday has been at home and hardly venturing outside as it has been heavy rain most of the day. It is only 15:15 and we are planning to go to a concert in Rutherglen Town Hall tonight. One of the artists is Ciaran Dorris http://www.ciarandorris.com/
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