Category Archives: How I Live

Life Happened: Busy

Posted on August 1, 2016 by nicdempsey

The first rule of having a holiday is that the two weeks before the holiday are really, really busy. This is especially true when the two weeks are also leading up to your birthday.. So last week was busy at … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Hot

Posted on July 25, 2016 by nicdempsey

Last week, the hot weather hit, I did a lot of watering and everyone was tired. And that was about it. This is not to say it was a bad week, it was a good week and a better weekend … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Burnt

Posted on July 18, 2016 by nicdempsey

This week was another normal week for me. I was on top of work but it was busy, I worked from home on Friday and over the weekend we had amazing weather. Ma and I worked really hard on Saturday and … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Snatching positivity from the jaws of a bad week

Posted on July 11, 2016 by nicdempsey

Last week did not feel like like a good week but it wasn’t actually all that bad. It absolutely had it’s moments but some of those moments were pretty good. I had three trips to the allotment. For watering and … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Weed and Feed

Posted on July 4, 2016 by nicdempsey

It was a pretty standard work week. I worked all five days. We had a company end of year wrap up on Friday and I had a quarterly review on Thursday. I bought allotment stuff (seeds, a bucket, some canes) … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Rain and Referendums

Posted on June 27, 2016 by nicdempsey

Monday started with the heavens opening, so the first day of summer was a wash-out.Also train issues have been plaguing my journeys to and from work. Not best. Anyway, I more or less staggered through the week. Spoke to my … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Migraines and minutes

Posted on June 20, 2016 by nicdempsey

I started the week with another migraine, again with the throwing up on my shoes! As a consequence, Monday was a complete write off and my week actually started on Tuesday morning. I had physio in the morning. So I … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Meeting, puppies, babies, rain..

Posted on June 13, 2016 by nicdempsey

Last week was a tough week. It wasn’t a terrible week, it was just hard work. That’s because I it’s a busy work week – hello 6 hour meeting, which I have to minute and set up for. It was … Continue reading →

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Changing up the cleaning routine

Posted on June 9, 2016 by nicdempsey

Today was supposed to be all about gin and tonic cake but because of a migraine on Tuesday and a pretty busy week, it didn’t happen. So this is about cleaning and routine and how the allotment is taking over … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: All allotment, all the time

Posted on June 6, 2016 by nicdempsey

On Monday, Ma and I got up early and did some serious hard graft on the allotment. We used all of the compost that Christelle and Mike bought. Slug bait was sprinkled and the whole place was beginning to look … Continue reading →

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