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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I’m not sure if it’s better or worse
So, the media server has been reinstalled. It has a shiny clean ubuntu install on it. Yesterday’s endless stream of disasters seems to have slowed to a steady stream of awkwardness. And thankfully after endless updates which failed to fix the graphics card issue (which I’d forgotten about until yesterday when I foolishly applied an…
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The one thing that faintly amuses me about the Brexit situation
Is that the rest of the world has finally got the chance to say to the UK “No, you’re a shitty small country with no real power”. Europe pandered to our whims because having Britain in Europe looked good. And because we were part of Europe – and Europe listened to us – other countries…
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Unnecessary whinging
Cut for unnecessary whinging.
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We have an apartment!
Of sorts. It’s kind of a studio-garage-partial conversion. It’s 500sq ft of tiny, but it’s our space that we shall unpack some of our stuff into. Of course, that means that we have fun activities planned for the weekend like “Oh, we’ll need furniture” and “a mattress would be handy!” and “ah, yes, we got…
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Oh, well this is super fun.
So, I realise that having admitted to myself that yes, I do need a root canal, and that the tooth that they filled in England just before I left rotted enough in the 6 months in between the ‘you should get it checked in 6 months, or if you get any more pain, because I…
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God damn
So, our PERC holes had to be dug on a day when we weren’t available to be there. That’s because we were running to meet the ‘if we want to build this autumn’ deadline — which we found out a few days ago is actually unachievable. It turns out that even had we got all…
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Oh crap
Identity is a funny thing. Before we moved I didn’t really consider the impact that not living in Britain would have on my own identity. I mean, I considered myself British – my friends often remarked that I was one of the most English people they’d ever met: driving a Morris Minor, listening to radio…
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Breadsperimentation
So I’m still working on some kind of bread recipe that’s a bit like decent British bread, until I feel like doing something more sourdoughy. After various experiments I’ve had the most success playing with this recipe. 1 cup warm water (tepid) 2 tablespoons sugar (trying a variety of things – thinking I might try…
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La-la-la-la-land
So, this morning – after many discussions with my beloved – I called our realtor and said yes, we’d like that land. We’re spending an enormous chunk of our cash on it. We can only actually build on it if we get the loan which we’re only income approved on. So this is quite scary…
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It’s been over ten years
But I still deeply want to get a copy of the white label Punk-a-wallah’s remix of Desi on the Streets of Calcutta. I heard it once on Radio 1 – then ran home and downloaded the show and saved that segment, thinking (foolishly) I’d just buy a copy of it on vinyl. Then I discovered…