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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Complex, frustrating and slow
So, things hae not particularly gone well at chez us. While we wait (and wait) for builders to return with quotes, made more complex by the fact that ‘green’ builders charge much more for their services, so instead we’re considering using non ‘green’ builders and they’re having the fun and games of learning about the…
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Well, if the other quotes are the same, it gets a lot less complex
So, when the builder said “I’ll individually price each bit out for you so you can see if there’s something you want to cut, and I’ll price up for Pavadentro and (some other, cheaper) insulation so you can pick” he may, in fact, have been talking out of his arse. What he sent us in…
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Scheduling complexity
So, we’ve got quotes in for plumbing and electrics which are affordable, and we’re waiting for the builder’s quotes. I’m now stuck trying to work out the scheduling in my head. We kind of want the electrician in first, but obviously that has the slight problem that there’s a wall where there shouldn’t be, no…
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Why is it…
Now, I know that despite these exciting internet enabled times in which we live, many of those among the building professions more have a website as a version of a fixed advert in the yellow pages than any kind of ongoing care about it thing, but why have an e-mail address if you’re just going…
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It has come to my attention
We appear to have over 50 different sorts of tea/fruit/herbal infusion. I am considering the possibility we may have some kind of problem. Also; the Mission 780se’s I found in Bristol are dead. This sucks as I thought I’d be listening to the dulcet tones of my record deck, and am instead still listening to…
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It seemed like a good idea
So, we may scratch the podcast, there’s not much to talk about, really. We can’t afford to do much of what we wanted to do. Which is fine, in a way. We’ll end up with a nice comfy house whichever path we go down, but it’s somewhat shocking the difference between the quoted ‘use this…
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An absence of work is sort of a blessing
So, the Minor is currently without a clutch pedal, the LHD pedal supplied by Charles Ware (who else) failed, and is unservicable. It is, I’m informed, made by welding the pedal to a lump of cast metal, welding to cast metal being notoriously difficult to successfully achieve (in the words of my blacksmith a while…
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Bum
So, we’ve had our meeting with the architects today. And, actually, the electrician. Tomorrow’s the plumber. And I’ve managed to drag myself up from feeling astonishingly negative. Which is funny, because the first architect seemed fairly positive. I don’t think we can do what we want at all, but he was positive about it. The…
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And so it goes on
The saga of the mobile phone drags on, causing chaos and destruction around it. So I’m not willing, as I may have mentioned to have a fourth credit check before the mortgage is through, and then today when I went to get the phone line reconnected (it’s got a ‘Stop’ on it), well… the saga…
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A little thought
So, the government are attempting to freeze nurse’s (and other healthcare workers) pay increments. On top of a pay freeze. So, for those of you who don’t know about this, here’s a brief summary, as I understand it (which is at a pretty basic level, anyhow). Nurses (and lots of other healthcare workers) are paid…