New pulleys for table saws of unknown origin (but oldish) – easy to get? Where’d I get one from?

No, seriously. I don’t. Before we moved I’d very little experience with criminal activity*. When I was 14 someone broke into Rebecca’s garage and stole the tools** (but thankfully not Rebecca), and someone once broke into Nina (my old VW Golf) stealing nothing but permanently damaging the back door. And I suppose in Slough someone…

So, as you may or may not have gathered – radio silence has been more common of late thanks to university and house I suppose – I’m on nights. Night 5 of 8 tonight. Unfortunately, I got woken in that way which means I currently feel faintly dozy and all I want to do is…

So, we have an ancient iron. I think it’s 1960s, which is not totally ancient, but is pretty old as far as consumer electricals go. We also have a 30mA RCD. This, it turns out, is not a combination that leads to joy. Anyone with better electronics knowledge than me have any suggestions as to…

Some shite scraped Rebecca, either today or yesterday… I’m hoping that it’ll mostly polish out. On the plus side, it turns out the 70 year old tyres on my push bike hold air. On the minus side I suspect that the bottom bearing on it might need replacing :-/

So, the insanity’s stopped me posting for a while. It’s been insanely hard going here recently, as we fly towards an optimistic completion date. Both Kathryn and I have been really quite busy, and between it and the MSc I’ve been a bit too busy to post. So, anyhow. Kathryn’s been sanding the trim in…

So, the theft of stuff, as a general group, has had a real effect on my mood. Thankfully they didn’t come into the house, and really what they took has so far seemed to be fairly easily replaceable (in terms of it’s physically easy to get a replacement) although financially it’s another matter. I’ve been…

So today we I found out (Kathryn’s not home to hear the shit news yet) that the home insurance policy does not cover such minor piffling items as a bike. Despite them asking me to run through the ‘High Risk’ items when I did named items for the policy, Halifax neglected to mention that bicycles…

So, yesterday was a total high. We ‘finished’ the lounge. Well, actually, more accurately Kathryn’s slogged her guts out painting and so the room is completely painted. It’s not really ‘finished’, there’s still shelves to go up, the fire place still wants cleaning, we hadn’t actually put the telly on the wall, but we scrabbled…

Quick question (mainly for the LJ followers). Is it useful having the aggregated twitter feed on here? I added it ‘cos of the instagram posts which were hiding separately. But if it’s annoying I can turn it back off!