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Warning

Here’s some advice for you, don’t try and align pipes which have landed up out of line by placing your thumb on one side of…
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Do you know everything?

I spent several minutes this morning staring at the radiator trying to remember which ‘tool’ I used for scraping the paint off; then I remembered…
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Something for the weekend?

Having spent much of Friday morning ringing different companies all around the UK going “Brake servo for an HC Viva”, a local company came up…
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Bother ++

The brake servo on the viva is officially deceased. This is inconvenient; not least because, well, they’re not easily available. It’s not like walking into…
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Now I don’t want to get too excited

…but, I just checked (at Kathryn’s suggestion) the immigration of pets; and it turns out a kitty could just come with us. As in, we…
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Bloody Rodents

Chrissy’s right; we should get a cat. I got the mouse trap this morning and off I went on the 2 mile round trip to…
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Discovery of the day

I’m much less good at grouting than I remember. After an experimental hour in which I challenged the concepts of standard grouting I can now…
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Another day another visitor…

It appears that we have visitors in our house. Well, at least one visitor who I have to say is not welcome. We’ve gained a…
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Again with the cold, aren’t we done now?

So, yes. Another day of tiling ahead, and then some grouting – and stripping the old radiator down. There’s four more days in this week…
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Morning update (‘cos you need more than one in a day)

So, plan for the morning was: Ring BeThere and order the new ADSL Collect car, collect packages, buy more adhesive, paint stripper, stanley blades. Drop…