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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Fire, heat, bills
Today the gas bill arrived. Well, technically, the gas-and-electricity bill. I can happily say that, according to Ovo, our gas usage has gone down about 8%, which is impressive considering the thermostat is set 3 degrees hotter this year (at 19°C or 66°F); meaning that whilst it’s certainly slightly cool in the house, but it’s…
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The Desired Effect
So my earlier post had the desired effect and got me off my butt. Today I: – Pruned the raspberries, and had a bit of a tidy of that bed. – Finally ‘dug up’ the potatoes (emptied out the large pot). I can’t say it was a raging success (because it wasn’t), but I can…
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Apathy and Indolence
I’m trying to persuade myself to restart working on the house. It’s hard though, there are so many places that are ‘nearly done’ and many frustrating little jobs that need doing. It’s my fault for my lackadaisical approach to completing rooms. Once they’re fairly much nice and liveable I have a terrible tendency to stop…
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Murdering Bach, Maiming Grieg and Mortally Wounding Debussy.
I mentioned before that I’ve recently been abusing my poor piano horribly. Unlike previous abuse (storing in an unheated garage; standing in a flood; causing an anglepoise lamp to drop onto the keyboard; attempting to apply french polish to the front; leaving it untuned for years and years) this is through the medium of me…
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Trying out the Kintsugi
Today I finally tried out ‘New Kintsugi’ (which means ‘epoxy resin and gold dust’ rather than whatever the traditional substance was). I’ve been meaning to try it for a while; we’ve broken enough objects that have ended up going in the bin, but the lid to a jar and the rather nice possibly Victorian bowl…
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The frustrating life of Walter Mitty
So, we went to the cinema* to watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It was a really good, enjoyable film. It was fun, funny, clever, sweet. Many of the things I like in a film. But the entire way through the film I found myself endlessly frustrated. It was so utterly and completely a…
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Tiny builds
So. I have the intention of making a nice little video for the Electric Minor Project. This occupies me on that front since I’m currently in an internal pickle about whether to go down the route of sponsorship (having gone to all the bother of producing a nice brochure), or to say “it’s only $5000…
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Shiny and old
So, the last time we cleaned our Dyson hit spectacular levels of unsuckage. Despite new filters it wasn’t really doing its stuff. Indeed, in all honesty it hasn’t really been terribly effective for a long time. I spent a while dinking on the internet searching for servicing info, in the process realising that it has…
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A lot of my time
A lot of my time at work is spent looking after people who don’t need to be there. People who’s GPs were closed, who didn’t want to wait for a GP appointment, who can’t go directly to a ward because the ward is full but aren’t actually so unwell as to really warrant an ED…
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It turns out it really is a rollercoaster ride.
So, I had a friend a while back who was going through IVF treatment. She’d had trouble having kids, and I understand now from a distance of many miles and little contact that eventually it was successful. It always seemed like an incredibly fraught process, one with infinite possibilities to make one suffer and a…