Author: Living in Lymington

I could have a career as a weather personage. No sooner had I posted about the sun shining and everything being lovely, than we experienced a couple of inches of snow in very short order. Made getting into and starting the car a tad more lengthy than normal, but it made the drive to church…

Now the clocks have gone forward, the weather in Lymington has changed for the better. Obviously it’s going to be plain sailing and unbroken sunshine from now on until the clocks go back again in the Autumn. No, really, it’s like that every year, that’s why people love living here. OK, I’m back from a…

Been an interesting time recently, what with hospitalisation of the MiL and her subsequent return chez nous at roughly the same time as half term brought a welcome visit from rellies. Fortunately I had won a family ticket for Beaulieu Motor Museum at a men’s breakfast event at our church. I know, you should have…

So at last a new front door! Front door man arrived just after the initial frost had disappeared from the back window of the car, which was handy as I had to back the car paste his van. With the sun shining what could possibly go wrong. Well nothing so far actually. But did I…

Did you know that if you are connected to a BT exchange for your ADSL broadband, no matter whether you are paying BT for it or anyone else, you are being monitored 24/7. No? Didn’t think so. Neither did I. Actually for all I know it may happen with other broadband connections, I just happen…

So our new, new door has been delivered to the glaziers to have it’s double-glazed units installed, the exterior clear varnish has been purchased and it’s just a matter of waiting. Since in a former life I have hung a number of front doors, I did toy with the idea of hanging this one as…

With Christmas now a distant memory, and apart from the wife and MiL’s birthdays, January has precious little to commend it. Fortunately in the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, we have a quality theatre within reach which always has a Christmas spectacular of some sort. This year is was the Wizard of Oz starring a bunch…

Not a great surprise given that yesterday evening the weatherperson said last night would be a dark and stormy night. Not a verbatim quote you understand, but that was the gist of it. Incidentally, why dark and stormy? Most nights are dark, it’s what makes them night by and large. Still I suppose it scans…

During a somewhat changeable day weather-wise yesterday, it became clear that there was to be no flooding in Lymington. At one point in the afternoon there was the most impressive rainbow over the town, at least as viewed from the car park behind M&S, and everyone knows that means there will be no flooding, right?…

Funny how every year, normally for a maximum of two weeks, normally sane people decide to change their lives drastically. Favourite resolutions are to eat less, drink less, exercise more and give up smoking. What is clear is that if your only motivation is that it’s a new year, you’re not going to make it.…