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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Sidepoint
Things I miss or am looking forward to, greatly. Having a washing machine on a floor which is (a) more or less level and (b) strong enough to support it without bouncing. Having to cling to the damn thing every time it does a spin cycle is very tiring. A kitchen. A real kitchen, with…
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Another housey update
So, just before I set to on my essay (while I drink my coffee) I thought I’d poke you all with another update. Incidentally, since I like knowing what’s going on in people’s lives (I’m nosey like that) and there’s more mutterings of explosions in the LJ world, if anyone’s got a non-LJ-journal which they…
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It just works
So, yesterday while Kathryn was at work I spent the evening around at my good friend John’s, with the Bush VHF61 radio. We picked this up in Wales, when we were on holiday… Err, which I don’t seem to have posted about. I was almost certain I had, but clearly I didn’t. Or at least,…
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Explain, anyone, please?
So, the builder turned up today and was here for a couple of hours, they measured stuff, poked around, moved some small bits of concrete and took a small chunk off another bit. Then they explained that they were going to go and order gravel/sand/etc and hire the digger and might drop some stuff off…
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House, Garden & Computer Update
So, the electrician has said he can’t start until a week late, and the plumber rang and left a request for us to call him (don’t know what that’s about yet), and the guttering bloke, he’s not starting until that Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday. And it’s currently hacking with rain, and I should be…
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Bird-shite-strike
Now, normally I’d not pause in my day to comment on bird shite hitting the car, it’s not like it’s wholly unheard of. Usually I wander out with a wet tissue, muttering quietly about poo, and wipe it off on my arrival at home. But this was just astonishing for the sheer volume. I’m driving…
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A little local abandonment
This place has been abandoned for as long as I’ve been visiting Bristol, let alone lived here…
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Our legendary restraint kicked in again…
So, we went out yesterday to get some manure, some compost and some top soil with the intention of lasagne mulching the garden. Lasagne mulching is, essentially, the lazy person’s way to a nicely mulched garden. Given that we’re still moving in, we have a large supply of cardboard, and given our terribly random method…
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Hey look, insanity!
Incase you hadn’t realised, I’ve now been awake nearly 48 hours. In an hour, I’ll be able to say that out of the past 48 hours I spent 43 awake. And those 5? They weren’t a contiguous block of 5 hours of sleep. That was 5 hours split into an hour, 2 phone calls, 2…
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Almost a literal pyre…
So, one of the unfortunaties of using archaic domestic appliances, as I’m prone to wanting to do*, is that as far as I can tell one of the traditional failure modes for these things is to attempt to burn your abode to the ground. Whilst modern equipment would, I’m sure, love to partake in this…