Archive for the 'Affairs' Category

Saving the planet / pocket money

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

M has been investigating what watts we’ve been using.
Illuminating stuff.

All points bulletin

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I wrote a lovely long and witty post then my mac ate it. Pish.
You’ll have to do with bullet points instead.
1. I am sanding a desk. Knobbly, swirly scrolly bits are hard. It also has ‘grunge’ in the corners. Did our forefathers keep earwax and snuff in the joints for extra rigidity or something? It [...]

Chimney sweeps and new art

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

On Friday we are getting our sitting room chimney swept. Of course I have visions of consumptive Victorian urchins in rags shinning up my chimney stack but in reality it will probably be a corpulent balding man in blue overalls with a hoover.
The chimney is also being surveyed to see what state our flue is [...]

Well appointed

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Well I have been glued to the Olympics in HD. You can see every wrinkle in the presenters faces and every bead of sweat, marvellous! As for ’stro-mo’ in the gymnastics, it’s a revelation.
Going back to normal telly after watching something in HD looks weird, kind of fuzzy. Then you realise that is normal. [...]

I love him

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Another reason that M and I are so well suited is that we’ve spent as least two hours today taking over email about radiators and radiator placement.
He said “We’d just need to know maximum sizes of radiators and BTU/kW needed for the room. We can mock it up in SketchUp tonight? We need to mock [...]