Author: Living in Lymington

We recently found out thanks to our energy supplier that you can get your cavity walls filled for nothing if you are either sick enough or old enough. Doesn’t exactly balance out the other issues that come with disability and/or old age, but welcome none the less. In fact we were expecting to pay between

Well here’s a wonderful thing. We moved into the digital TV age several years back now and looked forward to brilliantly clear pictures and no more worries about tuning stations. Until last Wednesday. Now all our digital TV contrivances had been warning us we would need to rescan them on 25 March to be able…

It’s not often that ‘Lymington’ and ‘dangerous occupation’ are mentioned in the same sentence. In fact I can’t recall a single such instance. I suppose being the lollipop person on Avenue Road outside the school might count, the interface of children and traffic is always going to be a tad tricky. But today I came…

Don’t get me wrong, I love technology but I haven’t yet descended into the dark depths of the complete gadget freak. However if something is electrically driven, has buttons, is made of polished metal, or preferably all three, then in my book it’s worth checking out. I am a techno-realist though and do realise that…

Christmas is over, and every householder worth their salt starts thinking of one of two things. Moving or decorating. It’s an automatic reaction when the decorations come down, the twinkly lights stop twinkling and you suddenly realise the rosy glow the Christmas time spread throughout your dwelling is no longer covering everything. So it is…

Thing about living in a small town is that there is an active grapevine which may produce a ‘fact’ owing it’s veracity entirely to repetition. Since before the closures of Simply Food stores were announced, there has been a persistent rumour going around Lymington that our recently opened store was up for the chop. This…

So Christmas is over, Lymington did itself proud with a very pretty light display and Santa was back in his boat moored in the Lymington River. And during all this, since yomping buddy stayed for Christmas, we had a walk. To be entirely accurate it was a post-Christmas walk in temperatures best described as only…

You know how it is, when a man’s gotta yomp, a man’s gotta yomp and a few days off recently allowed me and no.2 yomping buddy to hit the open road bound for…. well where exactly? We had an idea that we would like a view and since we hadn’t been there before and had…

You may just possibly note a more than passing obsession with water and roofs. Well my fervent desire is that such issues are all well behind us now. The sterling chaps from Capital Windows in New Milton fetched up with (almost) all the required bits and pieces and soon dismantled our leaking and unfit for…

It’s not a phrase in terrifically common use, but I recently heard a commentator mention a situation as being ‘an elephant in the room’. I like to think I have a reasonable sense of scale and, having concluded that the likelihood of a pachyderm in one’s proximity and not noticing was a tad unlikely, I…