Today I was working on collision, which isn’t the most exciting task in the world. Mind you I made a pretty good job of it as it’s almost finished and I scheduled a week for it.

Went for a run. It’s fucking cold. Ordered some more paint stripper. Is it odd that I’ve ordered 40Kg of paint stripper and 40Kg of dog food. Lets not get them mixed up, mind you sticking the dog’s Cherios to the wall would be quite a challenge.

Did some more Japanese lessons. They replied pretty quickly to an email I sent them to say that the words in the video didn’t match up to the words in the word list. They even corrected it. Now I suppose they can justify their £120 or what ever it is for the course. Mind you I feel I know considerably more about that language now than I ever did before, especially things like particles, which just don’t really exist in English.

Almost finished the Shiraz, added the first part of the finings, need to add the second part tomorrow and then it’ll be ready to bottle in a couple of days.

Watched a lot of crap telly. Last thing I watched was Graham Norton, who had Conor Maynard on. This kid seems to be haunting me in every form of media I switch on. I’m sure the talentless little shit lives in Radio One, every Saturday morning the chirpy little fuck is there. Sure thing though, in a couple of years he’ll be playing Butlins next to Chesney Hawkes and Dollar. David ‘burger’ Van Day….I really must go along to one of those one day.

Anyway, more collision type fun tomorrow, after Sasha goes to day care.

I actually got up vaguely early for a Sunday, well up by 10 anyway. So started on the mass paint stripping. By 7PM I had got through 20 litres of paint stripper, done one and a half walls and turned my finger nail yellow. Everything is now wrapped up in cling film, hopefully it will all dry properly and the pain will come off. I reckon I need another hundred quids worth of the stuff to finish it off.

After my epic stripping I started sterilizing wine bottles. Then bottled the Chardonnay. Managed to get 26 bottles out of it. So that’s now sat in the garage. There’s a little bit left in the bottom of the barrel for a few odd glasses, one of which I’m about to have now with a nice bath before the curry arrives.

An oddly busy day, yet oddly not a great deal done. So got up after studying pizza recipes. Had to do a house check for a cat. So walked the dog and weighed her, the diet is working. Then did the shopping, time was rapidly creeping on. Dived back, ate some toast and then shot out again. Did the home check, then popped into ToolStation to pick up a few bits. Then went round mothers and listened to her talk about herself. She said she may go up a ladder tomorrow to fix her roof felt, so there’s a good probability that we can kill her off yet.

Came back and sterilised a load of kit. Syphoned off the Chardonnay and gave it a quick taste. It’s very good, very drinkable, but need to let it mature a while yet. Also started to clear the red, that’s looking good to. Not sure which one to do next, may be a Pinot? Anyway, did the accounts. Now time for a shower and then I’m making my own pizza, this could be interesting….

Didn’t start the day quite as early as I planned but still felt pretty good. Got straight on with work, some physics to do and then a bit of AI. It was a varied if not entirely productive way work wise (sometimes no matter how hard you try it just goes like that some times). So need to do a bit more on it tomorrow but that will probably be the end of this little project.

Went out for a run (Jamie’s turn to walk the dog). Came back, did some more work, went to the early evening. Then it was a bit of a mass sterilization session. Bottled the Strawberry and added the oak to it, I’ll leave that to sit for a few weeks and see if it needs further sweetening. Then started up 30 litres of Chardonnay (not a cheap one either) and 5 litres of Shiraz (okay, I didn’t break the bank, I’m not a fan of red). Red is brewing, white just needs to come up to temperature before I add the yeast. Then it’s just sit back and wait. And hope this time it doesn’t explode.

That’s pretty much filled my evening, so now I’m going to have a shower and then eat salad and watch crap TV. Avoiding the wine, which is a bit odd as I spent all evening with the bloody stuff. Early start tomorrow, Sasha off to daycare and cleaners are coming. Just need to take out the bins now.