Get cracking
3rd September 2023 For the first three days of this past week, it looked like August was going to end pretty much as it began when Monday...
Bedding in
27th August 2023 After being sensible and well-behaved for a couple of weeks, the weather again went rogue when the temperatures started...
Home decor
20th August 2023 With most of Italy sunning themselves on the beach or refreshing themselves in the mountains, Stephen spent a lot of his...
Open for business
13th August 2023 Having survived the week with full power, I need to show my gratitude to the fates that control our lives by starting...
Snap!
6th August 2023 We start with a little conundrum: what do you get if you cross the beginning of August with a stretch of clear days where...
Very little ado about hardly anything
30th July 2023 Here we are at the end of July and it would seem – fingers crossed – that the weather has sorted itself out and finally...
Making tracks
23rd July 2023 With the weather continuing to be rather on the hot side, there was not much incentive to do anything particularly...
Scorchio
16th July 2023 First things first. Stephen didn’t, in the end, have to finish off putting chains on the remaining leather straps as...
Chain reaction
9th July 2023 The good thing about the past week is that it has, apart from some rain on Wednesday afternoon, mainly been sunshine all...
Pitter-patter
2nd July 2023 It was business as usual on Monday after a quiet weekend, and with Stephen back to full strength it was a normal working...
