The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / November 5, 2003 / John
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
Ramblings / November 3, 2003 / John
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
Ramblings / November 3, 2003 / John
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
Ramblings / November 3, 2003 / John
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
Ramblings / October 26, 2003 / John
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. They’re being delivered on the 4th of November, so things
Ramblings / October 22, 2003 / John
(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 get some insurance money through we’ll find some “fogotten presents”.
Ramblings / October 21, 2003 / John
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 shooting. On Legendary, you have tactical firefights at every single
Ramblings / October 20, 2003 / John
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.
Ramblings / October 19, 2003 / John
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 with the wee ones and flour footprints and me repotting
Ramblings / October 17, 2003 / John
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 write down all the warehouse information, then you go to