A fortnight ago, Naomi and I went to the Grand Designs Live show at the NEC. It was really interesting, and it made me all the more determined to actually build a house rather than buy one. There was a huge amount of stuff on display, and we came back with two bags packed with ...

If you’ve been regularly visiting my blog, as I’m sure most people do, you’ll have noticed a lot of nothing happening. You’d be mistaken, however, to think that a lot of nothing has been happening. I have, in fact, been do a lot of not nothing. We’ve been to Hay-on-Wye, Cambridge, Bournemouth, London, Canada (a ...

Today we got free burgers at a butchers in town, and potatoes, carrots, raspberries and bricks from my aunt. We also took some photos while we were there. (At my aunt’s, not at the butchers.)

One of my favourite things about my VW Golf is the really positive gearshift – it just feels right. But last week it suddenly went slack – which meant it felt like driving an old Ford instead. Well, not quite that bad, but there was a couple of inches of front to back play on ...

This afternoon I went to the Leicester Tigers ground to watch an American Football game between the Leicester Panthers and the Loughborough Aces. I haven’t watched American Football live before – only on TV in the superbowl a few times. I have to say, when there aren’t advert breaks every few seconds, it almost becomes ...

While we were at our friends’ house for dinner yesterday, their cat went outside through the cat flap, and then seemed to forget how to get back in.

Today I went to a model railway exhibition with my brother. Because he had no-one else to take him, and I haven’t seen much of him recently – not because I wanted to go to a model railway exhibition. I have to admit that I was quite impressed by the details of some of the ...