I’ve got Rob the painter here yet again all week, painting yet more of the outside of the house. This time he is concentrating on the woodwork at the back of the house, where I had a new utility-room window installed, the large stretch of replacement barge-boards and soffits where I had work done on […]
It was relatively easy to get Christopher’s name removed from the junk mail / catalogues etc that seem to form a major part of my post. The pack that one gets from the Registrar when one registers a death has a form in it to send off to some mail-order clearing-house, and fairly soon the […]
After Christopher died I scrapped our old Polo via giveacar.co.uk and was very impressed with the service. I got rid of an old and virtually worthless car with virtually no effort on my part, it was disposed of legally, and a charity of my choice, St Richard’s Hospice, got a donation. In my view it […]
I was just about to leave for work this morning, when I saw a car pull up into my drive. For once, I wasn’t expecting any tradesmen to call today, so I was rather surprised. I went outside and greeted the chap with a somewhat stern “Who are you? And what do you want?”. “Errm, […]
This house is too far out into the middle of nowhere to have mains gas or mains drainage. It’s also too far from the nearest telephone exchange to stand any chance of having superfast (or even adequately fast) broadband – a fact that really used to upset Christopher. I’ve become resigned to the fact that […]
I went up to the top of the garden on Saturday, thinking about all the work that would be needed there. I happened to look down on the house (the first terrace is pretty much as high as the house, the upper terraces are considerably higher). Hang on, I thought, I’m sure the roof ought […]
All our utility bills were in Christopher’s name, so when he died one of the things I had to do was to move them all into my name. Our electricity supplier was npower, and they responded very quickly acknowledging the situation and returning the death certificate. So I’ve been rather narked that all the bills […]
As I’ve mentioned plenty of times before, Chris used to do all the cooking. But while he was happy to cook dinner every evening, he flatly refused to cook Saturday lunch. He wasn’t keen on making Sunday lunch either, but that was usually left-overs from Saturday dinner so was less of an issue. But no […]
I’ve been reading in the press recently that lots of people are getting disenchanted with facebook and deactivating their accounts. And that reminded me that Chris had an account with them, although I don’t think he used it very much. I have, however, been getting annoying reminders from facebook telling him that he hasn’t checked […]
I bought a new sweater this week – nothing special, just a lightweight cotton/linen mix sleeveless pullover that will do fine to wear for work. And I got it in the sale which is a bonus. But when I put it on, I noticed that the label said: “US S; UK S; DE S; […]
