Month: November 2003

Asymptotically approaching completion

How’s that for the name of a prog-rock band? Anyway, that’s the status with the house. All the downstairs skirtings are cut to size (they can’t fit em yet cos the flooring has to go down first) and all the joinery and making-good is done. All that really needs doing is the fitted kitchen, the

Read more

Ignore what I said there

After a brief flirtation (it meant nothing to me) with iBlog, I’ve gone back to my old faithful iJournal. Why? Well, cos iBlog is the most network unfriendly application I’ve ever encountered. It seems to re-authenticate with the ftp server for every single transaction Broken in the extreme, if you ask me.

Read more

A quick note

Hullo. We’re not using ujournal anymore. I’ve migrated this site to iBlog, which allows me to keep a handy backup of stuff and not rely on third party hosting sites. If you’ve bookmarked this page, please go to http://www.nelefa.org and bookmark that instead. A note from the future. Given that uJournal.org disappeared up its own

Read more

7am? What? There’s no such time!

Well, there is in our house. These kids get up at 6am every single day. It’s not normal, I tell you. It’s a bit strange and unreal. Watching the CBBC and there’s some pillock making endless tasteless jokes about bonfire night and Iraq. Too early in the day for that kind of thing. I can’t

Read more

…and yet another thing…

Thank God for online shopping, that’s all I have to say. I can sit in front of my little iMac and visit twenty different online vendors, buying everything from Tallboys to teaspoons, and set a delivery date when it all pops up on my doorstep. When you have to replace the entire contents of your

Read more

…and another thing

The one thing, over everything else, that’s getting on my nerves about this whole “being burned out of our house” thing is the lack of a decent kitchen. The kitchen at our rented place is adequate, but nothing more. I love cooking, you see. Almost as much as I love videogames. The current kitchen is

Read more

Oh for heaven’s sake, just get on with it!

We’re nearly there! We’ve been in a shopping frenzy for the past few days, getting together all the emergency stuff that we need to have to move back in; washing machine, drier, beds, tables, sofas, that kind of thing. Trouble is, we’re hoping to be back into our house in two weeks time but the

Read more