by Neil | Apr 26, 2009 | House, plumbing, Why you shouldn't give me power tools
I have spent the weekend doing this: The scars you see above are from the rewire and central heating installation we did over the last two years, basically we have been existing on half a kitchen. I don’t know how we coped, sometimes we didn’t. Things went...by Neil | Sep 19, 2007 | House, Life, plumbing, Rejection, Writing
There are some days when you just wish you’d never got up: I poured coffee all down myself on the way in, standing all the way on the train. The plumber has discovered our drains are leaking into the soil and brick work at the rear of the house, this may have...by Neil | Sep 18, 2007 | House, Life, plumbing, Seemed like a good idea at the time, why is it always me
I am bone tired. I am so tired even my hair looks knackered and my hair is a legitimate life form in it’s own right. I knew we had it too easy with the rewire, their just wasn’t enough disruption and so it is with some acceptance of inevitability I report...by Neil | Aug 12, 2007 | leaky shower, Life, plumbing, raining inside the house is bad, why is it always me
I have spent most of today tinkering around with my short story “The Last Plank”, a story that it seems is cursed. It has taken me weeks to get to this far on it – most stories of this length take a fortnight tops to bang out a first draft –...