Up north

We travelled north for a family reunion mainly featuring the Amazing African Adventurers,

plus a new arrival

After some intrepid barbecuing in the rain, a welcome cuppa.

Summer

A nuthatch has discovered the extra bird feeder

HoF's own bit of gardening because he wouldn't let me throw the boots away.

A day out to Kinver Rock Houses.

Whitewashed and tiled, warm in winter, cool in summer. And if the furniture doesn't fit, then get out a chisel and make the room bigger.

Des Res?

For the past several weeks we have been occupied with getting Miss P's pad ready for new occupiers. Such a lot of sorting of belongings, fixing of buildings and taming of garden seemed to take forever. But at last it's all done, shipshape and Bristol-fashion.

Miss P is happily ensconced with another Miss P, the nurses are installed and HoF is feeling sad as the house now seems a very Des Res. Even if the area with its multiple wheelie bin occupancy does not.

But there is plenty of fixing to do where we are that keeps him occupied. I have been transcribing some local parish registers and found that contemporary signatures are so illegible that it ought to be law that people should put an 'x' next to a printed version of their names.