Back at the beginning of the year, I put together a bucket list of thirty things that I was hoping to achieve or to do throughout this year. I’ve decided to look back at this list to see just how much (or perhaps how little) I achieved: Replace the bay windows in the living room. – We replaced the living room windows with the most fantastic bay windows, though this took until September to sort it was well worth the effort and expense. Replace the windows in J’s room. – We were planning on doing this prior to Christmas but things got a …
looking back
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, if I were able to turn back time there are literally hundreds of things which I would change. As there is little chance that time travel will ever be an option I must learn to move on from my mistakes with my head held high. If time travel were an option then I’d be sure to head back at least twenty odd years to rectify some of my biggest blunders most of which took place during school, college and University. Certainly I’d alter my educational choices in terms of the courses that I chose to …
2016 has been one hell of a year, it’s surreal looking back at how much we have done, how much we have achieved and just how much has changed over the past twelve months. Here are a few of the ‘good points’ from the past year. We finally replaced the old, rusty inbuilt dishwasher with a brand spanking new slimline version. We got a new tumble dryer (only because the other burst into flames but still it’s new and it works far better than its predecessor). We finally got a new leather reclining sofa and chair which may have taken months to …