Category: House
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Yesterday was a good day
We spent much of the day on Sunday doing calculations and measurements. We worked out the height of the wall in our bedroom, we spent…
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Just add more plastic
Progress on the house continues apace. If it weren’t for the mould taking over the ceiling – and the struggle to dry out the damp,…
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Oh good…mould.
So one of the challenges is the speed with which we can get work done. There are only two of us some of the time,…
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So everything is all lined up…ah oh.
Uh. Our contractor sent us an e-mail which, to paraphrase and summarise, said: Something went horribly wrong on another job due to a subcontractor, I…
Comments Off on Ah, yes, that about describes it.
Ah, yes, that about describes it.
Here is the current learning curve: So, back when we were planning to build our house from scratch there were many things we didn’t need…
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Not to count chickens but…
Quoth the e-mail this morning: “The above-referenced permit has been approved and is ready to be issued”. Just the electrical permit to submit and I…
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In which I think out-typed some more
I’ve been feeling this melancholia or even the vague edges of depression again. I cheer up around Kathryn and around friends, but even then at…
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Movement (of plants at least)
So, our arborist has been around and hacked down our holly tree, chopped it into bits and stacked the burnable bits (yay). He’s also trimmed…
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Itty bitty reviews
So I recently read Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway. Although it features what is most likely distressingly accurate, and depressing near-future (resulting in my concomitant, but currently…
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