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.
-
Lack of motivation
I’ve been very unmotivated to do my uni work, or indeed the house, of late. I keep planning it all, then the moment arrives, passes and I’m sat doing something else. I mention this purely because I think that they’re linked. See, I’ve been jogging. Jogging, properly, for 3 weeks now. And I’ve cheerfully done…
-
Network pains
So, our DSL is sickly. We don’t know where the sickness is coming from, but much testing has revealed that the main fault is either the box, or something obscure with the line. We should be getting 10Mbps, we top out at 4Mbps. However, further testing (albeit with a potentially sickly box) has revealed that…
-
Christmas Pancakes & Orange Sauce (Recipe)
So, we made this after we had the first failure with cooking that we’ve had for a very long time*, as we contemplated what to have for Christmas Breakfast, Kathryn suggested pancakes – which I made, and Orange Sauce, which she made. Excuse the mixed measures, but we run a kind of anglo-american kitchen and…
-
A lush Xmas
So, just a quick Xmas update. We had a lovely, if strangely tiring Xmas. Spent a very chilled out day eating pancakes*, opening presents in front of the fire** and eating rich foods. We have a vast amount of very tasty eggnog left over, and quite the best presents in the world. Indeed, I have…
-
Projects
Just for me, so as I know how insane I am: – Finish Masters – Finish House (mainly Stairs / Kathryn’s Office / Bathroom, also floor in utility, building my desk, assisting Kathryn with the shelves wherever she wants assistance, a few small jobs in Kitchen) – Finish painting garage, sort crap in there and…
-
the perils of early adoption
It’s fairly rare that I’m an early adopter. Not for want of trying, but instead because for the most part I can’t afford to get new toys. When I switched from Acorn computers to PCs I was well behind the tech curve not because I wanted a scabby old AMD processor, but because the new…
-
High impact interventions
So, in the last week since being sick I’ve endevoured to make some progress, and regain that lost inertia towards finishing the house. It’s not really worked, perhaps part of this is the low impact of many of the jobs on the list. Whilst the skirting is all but done (I need to bring a…
-
General thoughts of a political nature
1) MPs should not receive a second home allowance of any sort. A ‘residence’ should be maintained for all MPs in London which is provided free. I suggest a nicely renovated towerblock. MPs continue to pay full council tax on their current properties. 2) MPs & senior civil servants should not be allowed to be…
-
Wild stabbing in the dark
So, I’ve completed the wild stabbing in the dark that is my ‘blog’ component of this module. I’m not very happy with it, because whereas last time I sort of managed to shoe-horn in a literature review of sorts, this one had 8 questions (well, 8 questions, but one had 3 sub parts) which, realistically,…
-
Getting it out of my chest
So, lack of success has been plaguing me the last week or so. The sink still leaks, or I assume it does. I may have to resort to a whole different bodge to get it to seal. Granted, sealing a 1930s sink is a bit more of an art, probably intended to involve lead plumbing,…