Well, technically we’ve been back a few days and I’m having that occasionally unnerving experience of how fast I can spend money when I want to. Whilst we were away (tedious holiday post with far too many pictures coming up*) I picked up two dirty great chunks of driftwood from the shore of the lake…

So, yesterday, despite sleep deprivation and a near overwhelming tiredness I attacked the bookcase that was waiting to go up in the office. It doesn’t really match the rest of the office shelving, it doesn’t match anything in there, quite frankly, but it was the best I could find in our price range and ready…

So, with some tweaking to Kathryn’s shifts we ended up with a 3-day weekend with both of us off for all three days. This is virtually unheard of, and so we promptly filled the days with activity. Cleaning the house (properly) on Friday, then having friends over for dinner (Olives/Nice cheese, Trout/Almonds/Asparagus/Salad, Rhubarb/Custard Tart). Then…

So, yesterday I actually got a fair bit done. Which was an about-time/pleasing situation. The Volvo’s been waiting on this small plastic part which I wasn’t sure if I could get new or was going to have to fabricate in some way myself (I was bracing myself for getting a brazing torch out and asking…

So, another little post about my dad’s activities. Last time I posted some of his phreaking stuff, and here’s another post of some slightly less technological but non-the-less essential equipment for the 1950’s/60’s phone hacker. Now, you’ll have to forgive me if I get anything wrong, my dad died 7 years ago and we didn’t…

So, after a bit of a false start today*, I started to work on the house again. I spent quite a lot of time carefully working out how to construct the shelves I want to put under the stairs. Me and my MDF trimming plans spent some time together, and then I looked at the…

…include being ill. I get bored. I don’t like sitting still. I get fed up watching TV or dinking on the internet all day. If I’m well and chose to spend a day dinking and relaxing on the internet, that’s fine. But if, like today, I’m required by my body to do so I’m gradually…

So, for essentially the last month I’ve had a succession of viral illnesses. This is mostly, I suspect, because my work have a sickness policy that 4 separate episodes of illness in a year is enough to get you managed for your sickness. I was on 3. Given that I spend my days surrounded by…

So, years ago Nikki gave me a Buffalo Airstation so I could connect some of my archaic non-wifi enabled devices to our wifi network. I realised when I bought our Kyocera FS-1030D that I could use the Airstation so that we could have a wireless network laser printer. This would be ‘nifty’ as they say.…

So, I had an appointment this morning, which is why the panic to get a car back on the road. Chester, bless his little rubber feet, is waiting for a part. Waiting for a part for a volvo 340 is much like waiting for Lemon Soaked Paper Napkins, although the garage have yet to ring…