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Got decorators in right now, finally getting our earthquake damage done, and they've done a nice job so far. They just came back for a couple of hours finishing off today, and one of them confessed that he'd broken one of our pictures. "No problem, w...

Progress in the new house

I forget what day this is now, we have been there a week now, woo! Obviously still not straight there, not completely unpacked, but I am getting through a box every other day I think. Plumber coming tomorrow to look at our hammering pipes and see why...

Taken a break from painting

Painting the hallway today with Dom. We have run out of paint though, Clare has gone to find us some more.
Lovely day today, sunny and a nice clear view to France. Off to the pub tonight, some kind of beer festival at the Ship Inn, Sandgate.

I believe in the power of homeopathy

Washing paintbrushes in approximately a trillion gallons of water, and still there is white paint coming off them. How much more dilution do I need? This paint spreads infinitely thinly. And I have got it everywhere, spots all over the carpet. Still ...

How to install Refinery CMS on Heroku

It's like I'm speaking a different language these days, suppose I am a bit. I found this very helpful, after I'd already got things working. Picking through the Refinery CMS Google Group I'm finding out how to do things, just all in the wrong order. ...

Semi fiascous weekend

Good weekend, quite tiring weekend though, painting and decorating and DIY for most of it, but also went out and stayed up too late.First on to the disasters, one I fell asleep on the (cream) sofa with a glass of red wine in my hand, oops. I was just...

Another weekend of decorating

Only did a tiny bit of decorating yesterday, as it was my "early" (Clare's lie in), so I got up with Harry and I took him to Screwfix, Homebase and the tip. I know how to treat my son! Screwfix was great, same prices as on the website, much cheaper t...

Particularly unsatisfying paint of the kitchen

Did an hour or so while Harry slept, but it's not going on as well as it did before. There are greasy patches, spatters of oil from the cooker, staining the wall in places, and I can't paint over them. What to do about that?Hope when the paint dries ...

I did wonder about that, doh!

Have rubbed down and painted again, and again, and I seem to be getting there.Mostly it is that the first coat of white on grey looks really really patchy until it dries. When the second coat is on and dry all is good. There will still be some spots ...

Where did that eleven day holiday go?

Lawks have had ten days off in a row, and day eleven is fast disappearing too, back to work tomorrow!Spending the day doing DIY and decorating, going to finish the kitchen at last. Second coat of white paint is going on a lot better than the first. Y...

Finished painting the kitchen

Finished the rest of that painting, pleaesd with the result at last. Can't be sure if it's just the second coat always looking good, or if switching to another brand of paint that did it. Had some generic last time but got some Crown Pure Brilliant W...

New style premium bonds record

Colour me sad but I've been looking forward to the new style premium bonds record to arrive., and today it did. We buy premium bonds by standing order each month, and normally get a new certificate each month only for that months bonds. Now they're s...

DIY weekend

Painted the spare room at the weekend, pleased with it. It was sort brown, it's now crown soft linen, and looks lovely. We're still using that room for changing Harry in at the moment so may not go the whole hog with the soft furnishings just yet, wh...

Good stuff today

Hipmunk, not actually that new, but new to me, nice flight searching website, though not geared to us in the UK - don't tell me I'm flying from Horley, I'm flying from Gatwick!AWS free usage tier free cloud computing for a year, start your dotcom now...

Wow nothing on the blog for a week now

We have been away for a few days, went to Brighton and also Peppa Pig World. Back now, I'm decorating the hallway.Hmm, Media Monkey seems to have deleted about 18,000 songs somehow. Hope I can restore from a backup......

Where did my holiday go (part six)?

Man alive been back at work two days already and it feels like longer. Lots of stuff to do.The drive back from Mum and Dad's was even faster than the record breaking trip there, less than two hours I think. We did so well we didn't have our packed lu...

Got the TV connected up with no wires

Can't really appreciate the full beauty from this picture but I have got the new telly talking to the sky box without wires at last. That was yesterday, today I've taken it all down again so as to decorate the room, hope it's all still working when I...

Little nursery

Had another good day, I went with Harry to "little nursery", the play group in Seabrook. Lots for Harry to do there, we came home with a couple of pictures. Then Granny and Grandpa took him for the afternoon and I finished some decorating. The bedroo...