The last touches on caulking the ceiling around my new light fitting are done, and we also managed to clear my printer jam ( Read more... )

Is it weird when I go downstairs for a walk two days in a row and find the same guy outside the back door having a smoke?

The electrician came around this morning, and fitted my new lights; finally, my lounge feels homely again.


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I had the day off work today; I spent probably too much of it playing Paper Mario, but I did do some sorting out of mess in my flat, and got a chapter or so of my book written (I edit as I write because I spot plot holes and continuity errors forming ( Read more... )

The fact that today is World Mental Health Day feels even more significant in these uncertain times ( Read more... )

This was a busy day; we did some shopping in IKEA, trying to find furniture and light fittings, to help me with a bit of a do-over in my flat, all spurred from the fact that my lighting in my lounge seems to be faulty, meaning that I have had to remove all the bulbs (which weren't turning off, forcing me to switch all my lights off at the fuse box ( Read more... )

Okay, so despite the worry that Boris would make us all cancel our holidays, it seems that we can still go; the big thing now is that if you're walking around in a restaurant, you have to wear a mask, so I'll have to make sure I do so, or face a £200 fine ( Read more... )

It was good to get to speak to people from work again today, just by having meetings on teams, which is better than nothing. I had a nice long-ish walk at lunchtime in case Boris starts tightening the lockdown tomorrow ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of today trying to sort things out - cleaning the flat, packing for next weekend, sorting out my own admin by getting payments done, all the things that I don't get around to doing on most days when I'm rushing off somewhere or trying to work ( Read more... )

The doctor's surgery underneath where I live is starting to do flu vaccinations (this will go on all through to March now) so they've set up a marquee and socially-distanced queuing area in the car-park; it looks quite impressive, and I got some pictures.

( Social distanced queuing shots )

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