My team, Bradford City AFC, started January 2018 in a terrific league position. Comfortably placed in the playoffs with a healthy gap between us the chasing pack, we have had a disappointing month. League and FA Cup defeats, losing four consecutive games for the first time in seven years, has left us looking over our…

Say hello to Mrs. Hudson. With the recent cold weather and the snow, ice and rain, the ground in our chicken run had become terribly muddy and unpleasant for the girls. Yesterday I installed a new tarpaulin on the roof to help keep it dry; thankfully I finished putting it on just ahead of the…

My new double socket with built in WIFI booster and USB point. Not the most exciting image but a very useful item. And, as someone who doesn’t like messing with electrics, I’m pleased that it (and the rest of the sockets and lights in the house) work after I installed it.

Today was spent relaxing at home after the travelling of the previous two days. I had few interesting photo opportunities. After working all day on my synopsis – and, I believe, finally nailing it – we spent a few hours catching up with season one of “Will & Grace”, a show we never watched first…

Today’s pic is an early posting from me. A trip down memory lane for me today. Dad and I have called to see my grandparent’s old house in Harold Hill, Romford; they lived there at 16 Melksham Gardens from the early 1950s until my Nan’s death in 1996. The house sign was put up by…

A sad day today as we said goodbye to one of our own. Family and friends came from far and wide to pay respects to a lovely man, gone too soon. I have never seen so many people at a service; there must have been over 600, possibly 700, there to show how much they…

Oh, the glamorous life I lead. I spent a large part of today – over five hours – in a cold and draughty lockup while I lettered the white van that you can see on the left. I managed to get most of it completed before it got too dark and cold to finish.

It snowed today, the sort of snow that is mostly hail and ice with the occasional flurry of snowflakes. I had to pop out into the snow to retrieve an item from my workshop late tonight and came across this critter as he crawled over the ice. If pretty sure that a caterpillar moving over…

February 1st at 2359 hours is the deadline for submissions to the Northern Writers’ Awards 2018. I am in the process of putting my entry together. I just have a 600 word synopsis to write and then to select 3000-6000 words of my story for my submission. That deadline is fast approaching!

This afternoon has been spent working on my submission to The Northern Writers’ Awards. The closing date is February 1st but my application needs to be as good s I can possibly make it. Consequently, as today has been a “writerly” sort of day, I thought that a shot of my copy of “On Writing”…

Out and about around my hometown today, while collecting supplies and delivering jobs to clients, I came across this intriguing declaration. Who is Kyle? What does he love? And why the reference to Basil Brush? And all of it scrawled in chalk. Maybe the answer will appear at a later date?

I spent most of today in my workshop preparing graphics for a vehicle. Whilst in my workshop I thought that an image of my power drill battery recharging station would be super exciting for you all to see. So, here it is. My newly bought DeWalt still can just be seen. I’ve yet to give…

You can just see the front of my van in today’s picture. We were on a combined “shopping/site visit” mission at a newly built and opened supermarket in our town. One of my clients owns the mill that you can see in the background and has asked me to come up with a design and…