[Adam Savage voice] "Well there's your problem!"


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What with the glorious sunny weather, I wondered how hot my flat actually gets. It's certainly felt far too warm recently ( Read more... )

So the not-a-window in my flat turns out to actually be a window, as the windy weather decided to make clear today. And in doing so it blew everything off the windowsill and a nice piece of stained glass I picked up back in St Mawes ended up shattered on the ground outside. Sigh ( Read more... )

Side-effect of electric heating: you can tell when autumn has arrived by the smell of burnt dust from the heaters being used for the first time in 6 months.

Jumping back a few days...


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So there are nominally 6 spaces for cars behind my flat. There's two spaces in front of the other set of flats (explicitly reserved for those flats), three under the viaduct, and a final space to one side ( Read more... )

The oven's been making a very loud rattling noise recently as if the fan was catching on something, so today I thought I'd take the back panel off and see if there's anything obvious. Curiously it only makes a noise once its got up to temperature, so there's some thermal expansion/contraction effect going on... regardless, I decided to check as if ( Read more... )

Winding back in time a little ( Read more... )

One morning quite some time ago, I turned on the kitchen tap for it to spit out a small lump of metal:


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And today's moment of randomness in the life of boggyb is discovering that the bedroom window won't fully close, which is not the sort of thing one wants to find at this hour of the night. I've no idea who'd I'd phone if it was completely stuck - is there such a thing as a 24-hour glazier ( Read more... )