Personal Blogs
Six days, one rotten porch, and a $65 run to the ReStore
Stripped the old porch back to bare dirt and rebuilt it – new frame, new deck, three proper steps and a lattice screen. About $488 all in, and the frame timber was $65.
Snow, silence, and a mountain lodge
Most of this stay was just quiet evenings by the fire, reading and listening to the snow settle outside, which was exactly what I hoped for.
Rope swings and some monkeying around
My work colleague Joseph and I swapped the desk for the treetops at Go Ape in Crawley. Set inside Tilgate Park, the course delivered two solid hours of extreme routes, big laughs, new mates, and that proper “we actually did that” feeling by the end.
A not so quiet weekend camping in the wild
A weekend of vintage fun and family entertainment just outside Ringmer near Lewes, East Sussex, with classic vehicles, steam engines, music, camping, and a proper community atmosphere.