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A birthday meal at the Ragged Cot

We had a rare family get together on Saturday to celebrate the birthday of Vanda’s sister Mandy at the Ragged Cot in Minchinhampton. We all had a good time and I have to say the food was good, although the service was slow. Here is a slide show of some of the photos [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”2″ gal_title=”Ragged Cot”]

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I’m a contented man

Well, it has been an up and down year but I have to say I’m a happy and contented man. Last year we sold our house in Gloucester and bought a smashing little cottage in Cinderford in the Royal Forest of Dean. I sold my business – Softdata Internet and retired This has given me 2 things I have wanted …

A new Door

This morning we had a new door fitted by Paul of Eco glaze home improvements ( See review ) The old door fitted badly, let in huge draughts and was a security risk, so we were both glad to replace it, and Paul did a marvelous job for us

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A DVD for the Tailor of Gloucester

Now I have my camera back, the next few days will be spent producing a DVD for the House of the Tailor of Gloucester, a well known Gloucester charity. The DVD will feature Patricia Routledge opening the shop, several more rare clips, a bulletin from Chinese TV and a production by the Everyman Theatre of their musical which was previewed …

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Videos

I should have the firewire card fitted to my pc this week. I have some fantastic videos that have never been published as for the last 6 months, I have been unable to get them onto my pc so it will be a great relief to be able to get at them again. In addition I’ll be able to start …

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First year in retirement in the Forest of Dean

Well, today marks a full 12 months since I retired. It has been very eventful. We have sold our house in Churchdown, bought this little cottage in the Royal Forest of Dean, installed a wood burning stove and created a brand new garden. Cinderford has turned out to be a delightful little town full of small local business with lots …

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Compost in the vegetable garden

Treating the soil in a new garden I have created a double bin for the garden compost to make it easier to turn. I can turn the old one into the empty bin before creating the new compost heap. Regular visitors will know that we only moved here in June, so everything was late and done in a hurry so …

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Enjoying local produce

Over the weekend we had some wonderful local food. Friday night we had a T bone steak from our local butcher with potatoes and beans from the garden. Naturally as always a bottle of wine was enjoyed with it. On Saturday the lovely Vanda cooed a Mousaka using aubergines and tomatoes from the garden and minced lamb, again from our …

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Autumn is here

We are now getting cold and foggy weather, but we are still getting beans, courgettes and sweet corn from the garden. Cauliflowers are nearly ready and the sprouts are doing well. Really looking forward to eating them   I now also have a new morning routine chopping kindling and splitting logs for the wood burner.