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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A ConDem Scene.
Dramatis Personae Lady Susanna Erskine – The Lady of the manor Lord Jeremy Erskine – The Lord of the manor Jones – The butler Toaster – A broken toaster Scene: Dining room in traditional English manor house. Table laid for breakfast. Lady of manor is at one end, Lord at the other, a fine breakfast…
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It’s sad, y’know
We have new doctors at work, it being that time of the year. Most of ours, thankfully, so far have not been as soft and gentle as those that I’ve encountered before. And so far whilst they’ve not had the generosity of spirit drilled out of them as slowly becomes the norm for people in…
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I’m going to say that meets the requirements
Every day we’re meant to do 20 minutes of cleaning/tidying/etc that doesn’t include doing the dishes. It’s derived from this, but tweaked, on the basis that unlike normal people we don’t have 20 sensible minutes each day (and quite frankly, if you think I’m cleaning for 20 minutes on a day when I’m on a…
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A random combination of events and thoughts.
So I’ve finished the kitchen lights – well, they were finished in the sense of not requiring anything further structural, but they had a horribly mismatched set of old incandescent bulbs pulled from the stock removed when we moved in / had the house rewired. The plan was to replace them with decorative incandescents and…
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With the application of sufficient shitty technology
So, today I’ve spent the morning beating a really crappy piece of tech with sticks. Last time I did this (back in 2008) I ended up reflashing the Airstation with new firmware which finally allowed it to demonstrate some semblance of working. Indeed, both the aged RiscPC, and the G5 managed to exercise some degree…
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Back in the household world
So this weekend has been a weekend for odd jobs. After a great breakfast yesterday* at Rocatillo’s I headed over to John’s with my aged and ratty Goldring Lenco transcription turnable (used for my podcast) which has been getting increasingly hummy ever since it was returned from ‘spares-or-repair’ e-bay land. The tone-arm would hum if…
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On suddenly feeling brown
Forgive this post, it’s sleep deprived. So, those of you who know me personally know that I’ve always perceived myself as very English. I’ve often been accused of being the most English person some of my friends (who are also English) know. I’m painfully middle-class. I’m all about fairness, I listen to Radio 4, I…
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Let there be light(s)
So, I’ve spent the day working on the lighting in the kitchen (so far). It’s been a surprisingly pleasant experience, although there’s a few bits I’m not entirely happy with. You can see some of the connector blocks because I didn’t sink them down into the body of the wood far enough. This is basically…
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Sold
Sadly the time has come to sell our beloved Volvo 340. This is the first time I’ve ever just been sad to see a car go – but we’ve now got 3 and only a 2 car garage. And tbh he’s not going to get used enough. I’ve actually put him up for sale on…
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Total Convert
So it’s not like I had far to go. I liked the EV experience, having travelled around in Nikki & Kate’s Leaf (and indeed, having had the joy of accompanying Nikki on little bits of her test drives now and then) it wasn’t like I had far to go on the liking an EV front.…