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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(Lack of) Motivation
So, I’ve been trying to get motivated to restart work on the house. It doesn’t help that it’s that time of year when there are fun things to do, like making cider, or making membrillo (QUINCE!) Also, it doesn’t help that I’ve a really strong desire to get the garden into some-kind-of-shape before the winter,…
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End of days (off)
So my little three week non-departing-vacation is over. It’s time to look back at what has been achieved at chez us. I have finally, after nearly 2 years of prevarication, wired up the security lights and alarm repeater on the garage. The garage was alarmed (heh) but had no alarm box on it, so you…
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How do you cope?
So, this is mainly directed at the Americans who read… I have a question for y’all. So for *reasons* we have had the experience of meeting and getting advice from a private healthcare specialist. Now, I’ve had one prior experience with private healthcare, but I knew what I wanted, what I was going to ask…
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Getting older…
As I travelled back from Gloucester yesterday, Rebecca’s odometer clicked over to 44,000 miles*. On these bigger transitions the worn mechanism that advances the numbers struggles to move the five (or six) cylinders required. The ‘tenths’ figure will sit between 9 and 0, clicking with every tenth of a mile unable to move as the…
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A deck post
Or, more accurately, a post about the deck. Mostly. Sorta.
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What is this shit?
So, I know I’m harping on about it but. Look, sometimes I forget how much I enjoy driving the minor. Driving the minor is a properly visceral experience. It’s so simple, there’s as little between you and the road as there realistically can be. It would be considered pared down, except that at the time,…
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Quick route to exhaustion
Yesterday was spent working on the house, actually doing some fairly significant renovationy things. Sadly, mostly things that don’t really do anything terribly visible, but that should make a reasonable impact to heating the house this winter. The insulation was scheduled to arrive yesterday morning, and given that I had the whole enjoyable day off…
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Product review, circa 1850.
So, for ages I’ve been wanting to try out enamel bakeware. Why? Because my mum used to use it and I recalled it being about a million times better than non-stick teflon coated crap. Not because it’s wildly non-stick, because it’s not as non-stick as teflon, but because it was easier to clean, way more…
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All better now (and worse)
So, before I start, I have a new job. It’s exactly the same as my old job, in the same place, but with ‘Senior’ prefixed to my job title. Despite the interview, I managed to get it. Err, so yes. Go me :) The main purpose of this post though is not this self congratulatory…
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Despite cost of living increases…
Today I bought a radio for 47p. Not some modern disposable piece of crap, oh no. No, whilst I was pottering home after a bonus make up early shift and having been good and stopped off at the bank to sort out the mailing address problem*, I finally visited a furniture recycling place with the…