Back again!

I have also been completing the radio controlled duck which I started making a couple of years ago which  presented me with one or two problems in its construction which I had to solve. However mind finally triumphed over matter and it is now complete and has been undergoing “sea trials” in the bath. At the first opportunity I will launch it on the lake and take a photograph to show you.

I have also been engaged in wind-proofing my front door against the winter gales which seemed to pass through the door as if there was nothing there.  Anyway, thanks to a canister of expanding foam, liberal applications of silicone sealant and a yard or two of sponge sheet, the whole house is now wind-proof and the ambient temperature of the living room “sans heating” is a noticeable two degrees centigrade higher than before. It should make for a snug winter here in Cumbria.

But the highlight of my blogging absence was unmistakeably my much overdue visit to my two youngest grandchildren in the Midlands, Gabriela aged seven and Jonathan aged two years and eleven months. At seven years old Gabriela is, of course, my intellectual superior, but I found Jonathan a wonderful playmate - and he me, I think. So I had an energetic few days sharing stories with Gabriela and crawling round the floor pushing cars with Jonathan and responding to his “Come on, Grandad”. We also had a trip to the park to play on the swings and roundabouts - a thoroughly good time in the delightful company of James and Kasia and Gabriela and Jonathan - and a wonderful escape from the woes of the media and politics.