The two-week wait on the kiln was doing her head in. Once it’s in, it’s in—and that’s it. Nothing to do but wait, which she’s never been any good at. Hands already on the next idea before the last one’s finished. So she needed something else to get on with. Bro was coming down for […]
The boat became an impossible project because we let it. At the start it was just a bit chaotic. A few jobs open at once. Nothing unusual. But the electrics had been fiddled with, extra pipework had been added for hot water, insulation had been started but not finished. Everywhere you looked there was something […]
I once turned a small problem into a full day’s work by refusing to leave it alone. It started with something minor. A settings issue on the iMac — nothing serious, just one of those slightly irritating things that makes you feel like the system isn’t quite “right.” I told myself I’d fix it quickly. […]
It was cold enough in the evening to relight the fire. It had been off all summer. Now, for the first time, we saw its glow properly—warm orange light filling the space we’d built. The smell of melting dog fur cut through it. They hadn’t worked it out yet—curl up too close, and you singe […]