Category: Wellness

I was out near the old stone boundary on the edge of the parish last Saturday, trying to mend a section of wall that’s been leaning since the heavy rains of ’98. I’ve spent forty years walking through damp cellars and over uneven flint paths, and I can tell you that most of the advice […]

I was standing in the garden last Tuesday, looking at a section of dry stone wall that’s been leaning since the Great Storm of 1987, and I realized I’d spent twenty minutes just trying to find my footing on the damp grass. It struck me then how much nonsense is floating around these days about […]

I was sitting in the garden last Tuesday, watching the light fade over the old stone wall I’ve been trying to mend since 2014, when I realised I was too tired to even hold a trowel. It’s a frustrating thing, isn’t it? You spend half your life working to afford a decent house, only to […]

I see those glossy fitness magazines in the shop window every Tuesday, filled with nonsense about high-tech sensors and expensive, neon-coloured trainers that cost more than a decent set of masonry tools. They make it sound like you need a PhD and a mountain of gear just to get your heart rate up, but frankly, […]