crazyscot

Radio silence for a bit, but I have been busy...

We have a shed. Long story short, we had a builder in to reclad it recently (it used to be asbestos), but reinstating the door was left to us. So I made a new door (actually, a double stable door, so four doorlets) to replace it. Rather than say more here, I wrote it up as a guest post for the Country Skills Blog which will hopefully be appearing soon, along with a sweet lemon pickle recipe (awesomely tasty - will be making more of that!). More photos to follow as we (well, mostly rustica) have been painting this week.

In case you don't read the blog and are curious, I made a few more guest posts the other month (lemonade, lemon liqueur, lemon sorbet and a rather hot lemon pickle recipe - which is itself an adaptation of a lime pickle recipe that miss_next posted a few years ago). Spotting a pattern? Well, we do have a lemon tree, and it provides us with rather a lot of lemons...

Bad things:

• My toilet's inlet valve has started malfunctioning.
• The isolating valve on the toilet cold feed no longer isolates.
• My car's battery was flat having been parked for a week in the bitter cold (and not driven very much for the preceding weeks).
• The mudguard bracket on my bike bent suddenly, making the wheel unturnable.

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