Archive for September, 2003

  • Tiles and windows

    Tiles and windows

    It all seems to be going swimmingly on the house front. The internal walls are all in, the kitchen now has a roof, all the windows and patio doors have been replaced. Apparently, there is a tiler busily putting down a floor in the bathroom...

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  • Like my iBook, our house has no windows.

    Like my iBook, our house has no windows.

    Actually, that’s not strictly true – it really has two sets of windows. It’s just that none of them are actually in the walls, if you see what I mean. We currently have the old set lying in the garden, the new set lying in...

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  • Trauma

    Trauma

    The hardest thing about a housefire is regaining stability. Our children are still (understandably) very upset by the whole thing, and Debbie and I are too. The trouble is, we have to do our utmost to present a front of normality, to reassure them that...

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  • Not exactly walls <i>per se</i>…..

    Not exactly walls per se…..

    But getting there. These are the sprouts from the wall seeds that the joiny person planted. Apparently, once they’re fully grown they can go about sticking bits of plasterboard to them. Todays job seems to be something called dotting and dabbing, which involves them plopping...

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  • Not exactly walls per se…..

    Not exactly walls per se…..

    But getting there. These are the sprouts from the wall seeds that the joiny person planted. Apparently, once they’re fully grown they can go about sticking bits of plasterboard to them. Todays job seems to be something called dotting and dabbing, which involves them plopping...

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  • WE HVAE TEH FL00RS (ph33r my c0medy l33t!!11one!)

    WE HVAE TEH FL00RS (ph33r my c0medy l33t!!11one!)

    Ahem, yes well. Anyway, the joiner has been in today – now that we have floors and ceilings in place. Bizarrely enough, he’s planted wall seeds. These are big long wall-shaped things that walls grow out of. <picture missing – for now> The above is...

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  • Gaaaah – the gurgling tank of doom

    Gaaaah – the gurgling tank of doom

    Alright, so I’ve never lived in a really old house before and I’m not entirely sure how the central heating / hot water system is supposed to work. One thing I am sure of is that it’s not supposed to be boiling and gurgling like...

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  • Piccies and stuff

    Piccies and stuff

    Hullo all. Things are going pretty much according to plan. The house is cleared now, and I’ve had a swarm of electricians crawling over the place like devil monkeys, wiring stuff up and popping up in front of us barking questions about light switches. Upstairs...

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  • Settling in – or so you’d think

    Settling in – or so you’d think

    Well, when I said our temporary accomodation was big, I wasn’t really in full possession of the facts. Having now spent a weekend in it, it’s really too big. I don’t mean big as in “Oh mammy, it’s a big hoose!” either. I mean the...

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  • Settling in – or so you’d think

    Settling in – or so you’d think

    Well, when I said our temporary accomodation was big, I wasn’t really in full possession of the facts. Having now spent a weekend in it, it’s really too big. I don’t mean big as in “Oh mammy, it’s a big hoose!” either. I mean the...

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