2024 - The year that wasn't a year for blog posts
Man, I'm slack. Last post February? I haven't been that slack. In my last post, I'd put the radio in the Ranger and it was all good. Then things got busy for a while. I took the little fella camping. My first time taking myself camping as an adult. Somehow one night in a campground that is no longer there cost me more than a night in a posh city hotel. Anyway, a lot of other things were achieved this year. Few had much to do with radios. - In December I'd ordered our verandah from Stratco. After a few months of messing around, I managed to find a building surveyor to arrange a building permit (a local requirement unfortunately) and inspections - the cheapest of which cost as much as the verandah itself. We managed to get the verandah built around April/May. And by that, I mean, we put up the structure and left the grass to die under it. Over the next few months, I managed to build in the west wall, which isn't structurally tied to the verandah at all (inten...