2018 - Oli has Quincy, Jan has Ocular cellulitis but lots of good stuff as well
Winter Hols and Illnesses
Planning starts on the MRP signals
New year gales blow fences down.
Visit to Oxford Museum of Modern Art
New 110Ah leisure battery installed in the campervan
Conservatory leek spotted in the same old place.
Good repair job with Sika flasing tape
Mum rushed to hospital after passing out. No family
contacted for over 24hrs. All well eventually
Back from a week in Lanzarote after a dose of much
needed winter sun.
Discovered roof still leaking!
New conservatory door fitted
Another roof repair
Visit to National portrait gallery to see Cezanne's
Portraits
Roof still leaking!!
Oliver hospitalised with Quincy
Garden Fence repaired
430kg logs (£68.80) collected from Longleat.
First Band Practice of New Year
Visit Jeremy & Brenda in Henly
Reposition some track on the MRP
Get the AIU finally working
The beast from the east strikes - cold snap from Siberia brings some extremely low temoeratures and snow.
The snow and the warnings not to travel coincide with a need to take Jan to RUH for emergency eye treatment
Big Freeze to Heatwave
Another freeze up with very strong winds from the East brings 2 days of snow and cancels my sailing trip
6 days in Norfolk/Norwich working on J&R's House
New circular link on MRP
HN moved up river to its summer mooring
OHA&R over for Easter Monday. Joined later in the day by Pip & Peggy.
Band Practice- and we try some new AND original stuff
Wet weather depressingly continues - A pair of Mallards in our Garden!
Some success with writting programs to logic chips to control signals.
Install a signal/block occupancy loop on the MRP
One signal working one not. Many teething problems
Rotovated the allotment on 26th April
Overnight sail with Tim to Lymingtonin challenging conditions
Jan and I help Rob take Johannah from Oxford to Aldermaston
Arlo is 4!
Discover that I am a Vexillophile
Help Johannah from Crofton to Honey Street
Fox and Goose lunch with Tom & Joyce
T20 Aus v Eng at Edgbaston. Great Spectacle
Johannah safely down the Caen Flight
1st band practice for nearly 3 months
Spot of baby sitting for A & R
Day at the sea side (Studland) with A & R
Anti fouled HN at POG
Day Sail and a trip up the mast
Mum's 91st celebrated at Sarah & Dan's
Fitted awning over kitchen
England out of world cup at Semi Final stage.
Heatwave and drought now 6 weeks old
High Summer days and
Autumn challenges
Heavy rain for an hour ends drought temporarily.
Renovation of the front garden raised bed underway
Work continues through extreme heat of this amaizing summer
Raised bed planted up
6 new fish bought (£10). They're very little.
Southburgh Festival in Norfolk
Camping at Little Trethvas with extended family
HN completes Nab Tower Race in 6hr 22min 45sec. comes 10 out of 11 finishers due to a very poor handicap value
Babysit for the boys
320kg logs purchased from Longleat for £51.20
Smart Car gets through MOT with bit of a struggle. Rear break cylinders ceased up and a new set of tyres needed. Altogether with full service goodbye to £700. ...and still the flashing Transmission indicator!!
A hectic few days resulting from the abandonment of a planned sailing holiday with Rob & Coleen caused by a most unfortunate horse riding accident to Rachel.
Sailed boat back from Weymouth to Lymington with Tim
Rejoined HN to sail back to POG with Jan.
Camping in Dorset with Mandy & Rod
Fit sound decoder into 6412 - but it goes horribly wrong
Deliver Rachel's Fiat Panda to Martock
Swift Camper van trip tp Marlborough with M & R
After an exchange of 36 emails the band finally found a date they could all get together - a Monday evening at 5 o'clock!
Lend Gemma the rotorvator
Disaster trying to install sound chip into 6412
Smart Car needed reeducating
Debbie (NZ) Visits
Cycled (well nearly) the Bath to Bristol Cycle path on a fabulous
October day and discovered a heritage railway I didn't know existed
(The Avon Valley Railway).
More work needed on Smart Car - Instrument cluster failure
Purchase Pollaroid Cube + and take film of MRP
March in London 700.000 as protest to Brexit
Challenging visit of Mum to wiltshire
Fishpond develops aleak after only 18 months since last repair
7 fish removed 1 large orange, 1 very large black on top,
and 5 littl'ns - 1 orange, 2 yellow, 2 multi.
Band has gig for first time for years
Rats, Ponds, Band, New Railway & Quiz win
Rat deterent system installed around the shed
Mother board fails on Jan's PC - bother!
In Denial gig in Melksham goes well.A fabulous venue in a barn in Shurnhold
I try out static grass on the MRP
A new laptop replaces Jan's PC
Met up with Tom at the new premisis of the IOP for a lecture by
Enrico Priti - From Artificial Inteligence to the Quantum Mind.
Fishpond liner replaced and aquatic life back to normal in a very clean pond.
Off for a week in the camper - in November! We went to Kent & Essex and had a great time.
Oli & Hus & boys go to San Francisco.
Went to see Mama Mia hwga
Meeting in Devizes "Devizes for EU". Some grounds for optimism for our dier political situation.
All back safely from San Francisco having had a good time.
Saw The Blues band in Melksham
Helped Sonia & Ben prepare for their wood burner
Made a wood sore from some pallets for the above
Busy Christmas and New Year
