A dust storm

Stuck in the dining room whilst Himself is scouring channels through layers of old tiles, plaster and brick so we can sink the electrical cables into the wall. Unlike the previous 'make-over' where the tiles were placed DIRECTLY over the cables - which explains a lot about our wobbly walls in the kitchen....

The horrors we keep finding give us new shivers daily, however, what makes it worse - we know who did these 'incredible botch jobs' and he was a builder in the village, used to live in our house .....apparently has only recently retired. How many other houses has he erhm worked on?

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Autumn has crept into the bottom of our garden and sprinkled liberal amounts of fungi.

If they were not so cute I would be despondent at the march on of the seasons towards winter.

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As an antidote - I have been both baking and cooking.

More spicy pumpkin soup to be eaten with crusty bread. And for the first time ever, I saved the seeds, seasoned and roasted them with great success. So much so we have bought a huge bag from a reputable wholesaler and when they land, I shall be roasting them for snacking :)

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I have a 'base' flapjack recipe which I use and just change the 'guest' ingredients, this week's was pecan nut and chia seeds - very tasty, sadly they did not last long. Himself has put in a request for a repeat baking.... I need to be able to see/get to my kitchen first.

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One very fed up dog - she's taken herself off to bed and given up all hope of a walk (silly girl you were out earlier and never mind the construction, it is bucketing it down outside)

Ok, that is my day in a nutshell.  I can see plaster dust swirling out of the kitchen door and hear enthusiastic wall chipping, at least the stone cutter has been switched off - it is both very noisy and a generous dust maker.....

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