End of Feb update

Well here I am five months in and how busy have they been.

What have I achieved in February.

Finished the mooc on forensics which was both educational and entertaining the husband who stopped a car telling that a man had shot his wife when he leaned through the window with a gun was found to have been lying and was found guilty of murder.

I got that right.

I have begun the juggling now able to do a reasonable sequence of ten with two balls.

I cooked mum a meal on our wedding anniversary consisting of Tomato Salsa with ciabatta and black olives, followed by English matured fillet steak with potato wedges parboiled and fried to crisp up with watercress, and for afters a variation on Cranachan, double cream whipped to soft peak with added toasted oats and generous helping of fresh raspberries. Oh and a great bottle of Rioja.

I visited the site of my 1km botanical survey site South of the main road between Lyme Regis and Seaton on the under cliff rich in untouched woodland. am still waiting for the survey pack itself.

I made a solid oak bird box now installed on Rachel's fence. A 25mm hole perfectly executed and thanks to Isaac and Esther for their help.

Have looked at life drawing but don't fancy joining the hen party that are invited to join a course in Leicester.

I've booked for Mum and to have aMichelin star lunch at Bath Priory thence to the bookshop in bath for my "spa" treatment thanks to John and Rcahel's Xmas present.

We have booked a train journey from Moscow to St Petersburg but it's taken us 4 hours each to fill in the request for a visa form, that has to be hand delivered to some god forsaken place in Barbican EC1 so the two visas will have cost us at least £250 quid, assuming we get them at the first attempt.

If that does not count we are planning an Axminster to Exeter train as we have not been to Exeter for at least 40 years.

Oh and I have got this far with building a house of cards. See below.

And finally today we have Ben coming to attempt the loom bracelet.