by Neil | May 25, 2008 | House, Life, Personal, raining inside the house is bad, rambling post that goes all over the place, Random, The Woodsman, Thoughts, why is it always me, Writing
Well, that was a tougher week than I was expecting. It’s funny isn’t it? You get back from holiday and you always expect it to be a bit of a shock to the system but no matter how hard you prepare it’s always a shock in an unexpected way. So it goes I...by Neil | Sep 16, 2007 | House, raining inside the house is bad, Random, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Thoughts, Why you shouldn't give me power tools
I fear I am no longer popular with the neighbours. Our plasterer let us down and failed to turn up to take the kitchen ceiling down. The kitchen ceiling was, if you recall, completely blown by the shower leak a number of weeks ago and the plan had been to take it down...by Neil | Aug 12, 2007 | leaky shower, Life, plumbing, raining inside the house is bad, why is it always me
I have spent most of today tinkering around with my short story “The Last Plank”, a story that it seems is cursed. It has taken me weeks to get to this far on it – most stories of this length take a fortnight tops to bang out a first draft –...