Archive for October, 2003

Well, we went off to Comet on Friday, clutching a big wad of vouchers supplied by the insurance company (otherwise we’d have gone somewhere decent). Anyhoo, much wandering about, cogitating, and deliberating later, we order a pile of white goods – fridge, freezer, dishwasher, etc....

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(Or Doday, in Dotty speak). She was very pleased with a little Snow White dolly, and even more pleased with her great big cake. As birthdays go, it was pretty bare bones due to the severe lack of folding monetary units available, but once we...

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playing Halo on Legendary difficulty (XBox version, of course – not the slideshow that masquerades as the PC version). God, it’s tough! Three hours in and I’m still not off the first level. On normal difficulty, you get through level one by, er, running and...

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Image to be replaced. Oops! I think we probably work the girlies in this family a little too hard. This is Debbie and Harmony doing their best Tom Baker impressions at 3 O’clock in the afternoon.

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Things are progressing quickly with the house now. We are both feeling somewhat unsettled. Dont want to spend time in the house thats not home. Yesterday saw the kids having fun in the back garden here in the golden autumn sunshine, John cooking apple pies...

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Ikea make nice furniture indeed. They make cheap tat that falls apart if you give it so much as a hard stare. That and there’s the tortuous process of actually buying it – you hike around a weavy path looking at randomly displayed stuff and...

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LOL. Ikea make some lovely furniture. We are going to have to go shopping for basics when things move on a bit. John and I had thought about the possibility of camping beds and bean bags if need be. Im just shattered – I just...

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Aaaargh! We’re now at the point where the loss adjuster is starting to think about sending out cheques for parts of our house contents. While this may sound like a good thing, Debbie is beginning to gaze hungrily at the Ikea catalogue :-/ On a...

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Dear God in Heaven! We chose what we thought were two delicate shades of lilac for our bedroom. As the painters were in we thought we’d pop along and see how it looked. It’s P U R P L E. I don’t mean strong purple,...

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I forgot! We found out t’other day that we were likely to be back in the house in four weeks time! w00t! There’s always a downside, of course. It turned out that our loss adjuster had left and so nothing had been done on our...

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