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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Warning
Here’s some advice for you, don’t try and align pipes which have landed up out of line by placing your thumb on one side of the (apparently very sharp) connection and using your fingers to prise it past. You may end up attempting to remove a chunk of your finger which will by turns be…
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Do you know everything?
I spent several minutes this morning staring at the radiator trying to remember which ‘tool’ I used for scraping the paint off; then I remembered – old stanley blades. I’ve no idea how many of them I’ve got through; but it’s quite scary. One side of the radiator is now stripped back to a joyous…
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Something for the weekend?
Having spent much of Friday morning ringing different companies all around the UK going “Brake servo for an HC Viva”, a local company came up trumps with a brand new boxed (‘new old stock’ or NOS, as it’s called) servo. It should begin it’s journey from the other side of the town we live in…
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Bother ++
The brake servo on the viva is officially deceased. This is inconvenient; not least because, well, they’re not easily available. It’s not like walking into a shop and saying ‘hey, I need a new brake servo for a viva’. Or it is, only first they look at you like you’re a talking goat, and then…
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Now I don’t want to get too excited
…but, I just checked (at Kathryn’s suggestion) the immigration of pets; and it turns out a kitty could just come with us. As in, we could walk straight into the country with a kitty, so long as he’s vaccinated against Rabies. We could have a kitty. A little furry kitty :) *grins* Now, all we…
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Bloody Rodents
Chrissy’s right; we should get a cat. I got the mouse trap this morning and off I went on the 2 mile round trip to some fields where I planned to release it. I must admit I wasn’t entirely convinced there was a mouse *in* the trap once I’d picked it up; but hell, we…
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Discovery of the day
I’m much less good at grouting than I remember. After an experimental hour in which I challenged the concepts of standard grouting I can now safely say I suck at grouting. I hope Kathryn doesn’t mind doing the rest, and fixing up the hash I made in the shower; I’ve cleaned it up but I…
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Another day another visitor…
It appears that we have visitors in our house. Well, at least one visitor who I have to say is not welcome. We’ve gained a small brown furry thing of the mouse variety who (unfortunately for him or her) crossed the kitchen last night while I could still see (him or her). Small and brown…
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Again with the cold, aren’t we done now?
So, yes. Another day of tiling ahead, and then some grouting – and stripping the old radiator down. There’s four more days in this week and in those four days I’m hoping to achieve: – Tiling and grouting complete around sink, bath, shower, toilet and radiator’s locale. – Woodwork (behind radiator) painted. – Radiator stripped…
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Morning update (‘cos you need more than one in a day)
So, plan for the morning was: Ring BeThere and order the new ADSL Collect car, collect packages, buy more adhesive, paint stripper, stanley blades. Drop off car And y’know what, it’s all been done (well, sorta. I rang BT to get my MAC Code, which they can’t actually produce at the moment; I await a…