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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It’s a rockery
Or, possibly a breeze-blockery. One or other. Before I get started on this update, can I share a moment? We were expecting (to use a very loose term, I think faintly hoping is more what I was doing) that we would have a delivery of top-soil today. Our local top-soil merchant having given us a…
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Getting high on the fumes…
So, progress has been good this week; we’ve painted all the walls and the ceiling once, a second coat on the ceiling (and Kathryn will be here to help with the ceiling tomorrow*, yay) and a second coat on the walls and the kitchen will be painted, less the woodwork. I’m going to paint the…
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Planning
Linky: This looks fun. We had a positive progress day, most of the kitchen walls are clean; most of the ceiling is washed; a good chunk of the paint is stripped. Plan is, over the next week: – Order topsoil tomorrow – Strip the rest of the door frames tomorrow morning and give them a…
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Mud, muck and paint.
So, today is house day, we’re not quite up and running yet although we’ve had our pancakes :) I attacked the garden a bit more yesterday, spending about an hour separating bricks and laying them next to the path, I even took the old concrete edging off the path, the only problem is that I…
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Luncheon with left overs.
We’ve been very good of late, cooking most nights, and cooking new and exciting things. So much so that we’re running out of recipes in the Vegetarian cookbook of choice; which has proven to be a fairly reliable meal producer, while some of the meals have been not-great (usually a great deal of work for…
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No going back
So, the Dell and the Apple are both now on ebay. Shinymac and Lapytopy will hopefully go to new owners, although to be honest, I doubt the Dell will sell. Added to the near 100 quid I got from the first auction I’m hoping that I’ll get enough from the Apple (starting bid 580 quid)…
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70 working days
Worrying: We’re going to Ireland for Kathryn’s birthday (and as an anniversary present). The passports aren’t back from the Home Office yet. Having rung them, and listened to their message, and checked the website, they won’t give you any further information about a query until 70 working days (‘we aim to process 90% of applications…
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Arse
So, I’m not renown for my ability to manage money well. In fact, those who know me would probably be able to pitch my financial skills as something around the level of ‘hopeless’. It’s not really living beyond my means, it’s that I just don’t take enough care of my finances. I should care more,…
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Wakey wakey rise and shine
Said my body at 4:45am. I’m not quite sure why, I think I was woken by my throat, and then my brain started listing all the things I need to do today. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Kathryn said I wasn’t to do anything that might upset my throat further – so my cunning plan to…
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And today I failed to save a life…
Only, it must be said, that of a Resusci-anne*, but there y’go. She was in Asystole for which the outcome from resuscitation is pretty poor – and she went straight from compromised bradycardia into asystole, so we were pretty buggered. But I did my best, and since I’ve never seen a successful resuscitation then it’s…