Archives for May 2006

The Water Cycle

I seem to have spent most of the day handing wads of £200’s to people who come to my door. (It’s run out now, in case you were thinking of trying it.) I’ve spent a portion of yesterday on the phone, reporting someone who persisted in phoning me at 4am to offer to spice up […]

I’ve got broadband 🙂 Admittedly, i’ve pooped up and should have bought the wireless modem from Plus as currently the only way of doing things is to tie my laptop down as a base for it, but i expect we’ll get sorted eventually. All the telephone points are curiously arranged in places you wouldn’t really […]

Admittedly not yet with proper internet (how does anyone manage on dial up????) and admittedly we’re ignoring quite a lot of boxes, but we have furniture, clothes and essentials. And we have space, far more of it than i thought we’d have. Which may possibly be some kind of universal justice for the amount of […]

… that the house is big enough and makes all my furniture look very child battered indeed! All except for crud is there and i’m looking round this house in horror! Cleaning party on for Saturday – drinks and nibbles provided, bring marigolds… any takers? 😀 And on another note, i’ve had a very decent […]

After 3 years, in 2 different houses, we’re moving out of the street. I’ve liked it here, it has a good middle-of-town feel to it and we’ve been particularly happy in this house, which is a lovely one. I can hardly believe we’ve been here over 2 years, the longest of any of our rents. […]

We’re homeowners! 5 and 1/2 years of renting is finally over 😀

I think this has to be my favourite line from today. Mid-morning, the builder of the new flats at the back came to point out that our drains had blocked up again (almost a year to the day after last time!) I dutifully phoned the agents (will miss being able to do that!) who said […]

So – she’s made all my designs, done her own photos of them, and is selling again. I probably can’t stop her doing that. But i still need to leave her feedback, preferably in a way that will make it impossible to neg me back. So – any suggestions?