Bills Posts

With the work that we have had done in the house, we haven’t had access to the living room for the last seven weeks. I must admit, it’s not the work that has been the problem, the lads from Ace of Spades have been superb, even if they have consumed vast quantities of tea, custard creams and bourbons. We had to stop buying chocolate hobnobs because I was becoming addicted to them.

Anyhow, life has slowly begun to return to normal,, today we started moving furniture back in to the lounge. Thankfully. The time of living in the evenings off the bed are drawing to a close. These last two nights in particular, I have just given up trying to not sleep. That’s one episode off Grace where I have no idea how it ended, and another episode that is so clouded by the fog of drowsiness that I’m not really sure what happened.

When it comes to important decisions such as which curtains are best suited, well don’t attempt it half asleep. I’m afraid my lack of enthusiasm got the better of me, with muttering of “I don’t care” coming frequently. Not the best response to a wife who is bubbling with enthusiasm, and expects the same from you.

I’d say I’m in the doghouse, but we don’t have a dog and any cat house would be far too luxurious for me. Anyhow, I managed to wake up enough to pen something a bit better than last nights very feeble effort. Goodnight.

My apologies, fell asleep and woke up too tired to do a full blown entry.

The Interchange is fully operational, and in use. The bus station is closed off and out of use, and I am in trouble because I am too grumpy.

I agree that I am grumpy, but don’t ask me for an explanation or a reason for my grumpiness, it is quite irrational and stupid, but there it is, I am.

It really was very nice to just get out for a couple of hours this evening and have a wander around on the other side of the harbour. As you do, we took a few pictures which was very pleasant, I’d even taken my big camera with me, but as it was night, I took the tripod as well. I needed it. I don’t have the steadiest of hands.

We went into Gunwharf, and the Lindt shop was open, but we both exhibited great will power and resisted the urge. Luckily, when we came back it was closed.

The ferry trip over was slightly strange. The captain seemed to take a very wide course, as slowly as he could. Coming back a couple of hours later, it seemed like the captain couldn’t get across the water fast enough. It was OK though. Both quite smooth journeys. A very pleasant evening.

Sorry, but it was at least 20 years ago. I was listening to the radio, and the presenter was at the Prickwillow Pump Engine Museum. I have to be honest and say. That they painted a fascinating picture of the engines that were used to drain water off the Fens in Norfolk and Suffolk.

WE visited the museum. I enjoyed the visit. Elayne kind of didn’t. I have to admit that it looked like the museum was in its early days.

I’ve just checked online and Prickwillow is still a thing, not sure if it is in the same place but it has significantly grown, I have to say that I am really pleased that it is still going, and appears to have grown and is hopefully doing really well.

Anyhow, there is a reason I am telling you this. I’ve found another one – similar but different, and hopefully much, much better. We haven’t got there yet, but we will do. I’ll tell you about it.

I haven’t checked, but it’s quite likely that I’ve used this picture in a blogpost sometime in the last month or so. It’s a location within easy walking distance of home, and I think the image has a lot of potential, in that I like the structure, but I’m not happy with the picture. I’d like to make it better.

When we were out with the camera club a couple of weeks ago, I had one of those moments when I realised that I just don’t know enough about some the settings on my Nikon, which as a camera which only went out of production a couple of years ago is still not a bad purchase – even 2nd hand. So, this week, I am going to play a bit more with some of the features on the camera.

One of the things that I have regularly moaned about is the lack of opportunity to take pictures, where I might get even the slimmest chance of getting a good shot. The camera club offers a regular walk usually in the countryside, but this Monday there’s a chance of some night-time work. I’ve been saying that I’m not going to go as I’ve been rough and not felt like it, but I do feel better and might just change my mind. There’s an opportunity – why not take advantage?

I fell asleep, I woke up feeling really tired, realised I hadn’t done my post panicked in case I fell asleep again so thought I would dash off this feeble effort to keep the count going.

The title and the picture are nothing at all to do with the subject of tonights post, which is more about the position I would like to be in with this blog.

I asked a friend if it would be better if I had a single topic to consistently write about, or is it better that I jump about writing on what are essentially random topics?

Actually, I think if I wrote about the same topic each night it would be pretty boring unless it was something incredibly interesting which I am fairly confident that I don’t have.

What I would like is to at least have a rough idea let’s say up to a week ahead, what I am going to write about. That will need a bit of planning.

Elayne’s collection is growing. I have to admit that having encouraged her, it is lovely to see the delight on her face when she looks at her collection.

I get to help her doing a bit of research when we find something slightly unusual, take for example the header photo. Purely by luck, I think we’ve tracked down the producer, a company called Mirrette, known for Art-Nuevo designs in the early 1900’s.

Fascinating stuff to find out.

I’m told that the interchange is opening tomorrow. The outer fence is gone, everything is in place and apparently it is good to go for the busses to start using it.

That means the main busses station will begin to be demolished possibly tomorrow. The next phase.

Busses will be using the new stop on north cross street. I’m wondering how the busses will exit from there onto Mumby road.

Monday evening as we were coming home there was a lot of roadworks going on none of it related to the interchange, but I did wonder they would put lights on the north cross street that would trigger to give the bus priority.

We will have to wait and find out.