nostalgia – The Frank Journals

Last Week: Midsummer and Monsoons

The floor is down. The difference it makes – no more rubbish yellow lino and crap bland carpet. Now grey slate tiles, easy to clean, sort of soft in colour, bringing the 3 living spaces together and just over half the downstairs floor complete. I want the whole of downstairs flooring in place before Christmas.ContinueContinue reading “Last Week: Midsummer and Monsoons”

Bonfires and Fireworks

Literally my favourite day when I was growing up. My Dad would build this massive bonfire out the back of our house, with neighbours bringing stuff for burning in the weeks before. My mum would cook and bake all day, the house full of jacket potatoes and flapjacks. The anticipation of night falling was tooContinueContinue reading “Bonfires and Fireworks”