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Posts that I have…

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

… written on VOX that it won’t let me cross-post due to all the links.
The post where I talk about Etsy and the wonderful things it does
The post where I talk about restoring my antique desk and my poor shredded fingers
The post where I get excited about all the lovely furniture that has arrived from [...]

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. [...]