Leaving City Life Behind

Having reached "main floor" in my last update some 3 weeks ago, this post focuses primarily on the build of the next rise of wall, hence "going up."  Not as Theresa May might have felt on the night of UK's election on Thursday 8th June, a feeling of "going down." The whole ghastly Brexit debacle back in UK appalls me from afar, but also brings to mind a joke I heard a year ago, immediately following UK's Brexit referendum:  "There are currently two countries in the world trying to f... themselves up, UK and USA.  But the USA has the Trump card."   For all the divided opinions and divisive media furore in the country of my origin, think yourselves lucky Donald Trump is not your leader, or the "pretty boy" here in Canada. Politicians, get on with it and for just this once, unite for UK's better good! I concluded my last post on Sunday 4 June with the aim of publishing again weekend of 17-18 June and hoping to have achieved ...

"Main Floor - Habberdashery and ... ".  Was it ladies underwear?  Well, it was something like that which rang out in the lift (elevator for Canadian and US readers) in that ridiculous but amusing British TV programme of 30-40 years ago "Are you being served." As I wrote the initial rather dull title "Main Floor" to this post, the extension sprang out of my mind as a result of a conversation only a couple of days that ended up in laughter about Mollie Sugden and John Inman.  May they both rest in peace.  Apologies to those who might find it all a bit shocking in this PC modern age where innuendo and double entendres are not understood, and to those younger readers who have absolutely no idea what I am talking about at all in terms of TV or language, but I am still giggling over that discussion. I ended my last post on Sunday 21st May with pictures of the newly installed floor system above the garage for what will later become a concrete deck area with an...