by Neil | May 6, 2009 | House, Life, Personal, Seemed like a good idea at the time
Things have been quiet round here because we have been busy putting a new kitchen into our house. If DIY isn’t your thing you probably want to skip this post. A quick recap, we had been making do with this: The previous weekend we ripped it out and so Friday we...by Neil | May 3, 2009 | House, Personal, Why you shouldn't give me power tools
Sorry all. I’m not around much at the moment because we only have a limited window of time in which to get the kitchen in (I’ve snuck off to post this and must return shortly). It’s going well – touch wood – but is really hard work for...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 | Feb 22, 2009 | House, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Writing
Yes, I wasn’t able to generate a very pithy blog title – sue me. No, scratch that – don’t sue me: I have no money; the bank owns everything. Anyway, I’ve been focussing on writing and being very busy in the day job (I’m not...by Neil | Dec 18, 2008 | House, Life, Mouse, why is it always me
I discovered today that we’ve had a visitor in the night. I came downstairs to make my tea and discovered that something had nibbled all the way through part of our tortilla wraps, packaging and all. I hope this was a passing visit as I can’t find any...by Neil | Aug 4, 2008 | House, Life, Personal, Random, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Why you shouldn't give me power tools
For all my moaning I do rather like my house. It has history (it’s a 104 years old) and we have bags of room allowing me a decent space to write in. However, I’ve realised my house does not like me. From busted drains to leaky showers and collapsing...