Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Revolting & Worrysome
Actually, two different things. The revolting first, I feel. So I decided to unblock the drain out at the back of the house, for one thing it smelt revolting, for another it wasn’t really draining at any sensible speed anymore, and for a third, it needed doing. I’ve been putting it off because, well, frankly…
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Procrastination
There is, not unusually for me, a job I’m not really fancying doing. It appears that while we were on holiday something either grew or made it’s nest in the waste pipe from the kitchen (what used to be the only drain for the house). I’ve been putting it off, because it looks really quite…
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Mooples
So, it’s rained. Then it stopped, and now the Volvo is sporting a brand shiny new hose. The leaky porous old hose… is now shiny and new: And should stop dripping coolant on the drum, which would be nice. It was a bit of a pain to persuade it to run without kinking, I think…
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Why for art thou raining?
So I went for an abortive run today, my knee was a bit gribbley yesterday, it often gets this way after nights, so I left it ’til today to try running. Uh, not enough of a gap. I made it about 3/4ths of a mile before my knee went ‘um…No’. Fortunately, I listened, stopped fairly…
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It’s a…
I have to say I’m a mixture of amazed and pleased. I pulled out and as I rode down the road realised the back brake was barely working. I mean, it did something if I put all my weight on it but not a great deal, so I rode back up the road, and adjusted…
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Disproportionate
Many things in life give me a disproportionate amount of pleasure. Looking at something well engineered, getting a cannula in a difficult-to-bleed patient who’s ill and needs antibiotics, music generated by Cybraphon, all sorts of random things. But somethings cause a disproportionate amount of annoyance. For example, someone nicking our recycle bin (with 79 artfully…
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Today I are mostly doing not-a-lot.
I had various plans for today, and may yet get my act together, but mostly I’m dealing with my bodies reluctance to believe that it is day time. Sunlight is no defeater of my body’s body-clock which thinks it’s…well…it’s not entirely sure where it thinks it is, but involves making me feel faintly sick, whatever…
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Adding to the ‘stuff’
So, freecycle Slough finally came up trumps, and in our kitchen sits a sewing machine. I’ve been trying to find one for *ages* – mostly for Kathryn, because frankly my sewing is laughable. But occasionally it’s seemed like we could do with a machine. I was hoping to pick up an ancient singer with the…
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And in other news…
So, I am planning to mail my (expensive) CRNBC application off today, a scary act because I then need to sit an exam at some point which enables me to work in Canada. This is all very well and shiny, and I’ve even got the link to get the transcript required from my university (more…
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And so it ends
Another week of nights is, thankfully, over. While the week has been in many ways not that bad, you have to remember that a week of nights is – fundamentally – two weeks worth of work crammed into the space of one. It is, therefore, hard going. And today is, as usual one of those…