Morning all! Today, very excitingly, I am getting a new roof on the kitchen. So far we have discovered that the existing roof was quite a bit more fucked than it looked, with the thrilling ( Read more... )

I know, everyone's doing it, but we don't get it that often! So, animals in snow...


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Forgot to add yesterday that this year's attempt at Nanowrimo has pretty much failed. Managed great the first day, then very little ever since. Couldn't seem to get into it at all - it wasn't even a matter of not having time, I had time and kept actively finding Other Things to fill it with to avoid writing ( Read more... )

The evening got much better as it went on. Got home and after lying on the floor - unfortunately on the Mat of Mousely Offerings to The Great Cat Gods, but what can you do? I do hoover it after every one. Probably the most hoovered place in the house ( Read more... )

Today has been vaguely productive. Paid the electricity bill (on time for once too), renewed the company insurance, got paid too (yay) and got to the bank. Went to forbidden planet to see if they'd got any more of the Firefly comics in, but they're still all sold out. They did have Neil Gaiman's 1602 tho, which was a nice bonus. They had Anansi ( Read more... )

Livejournal has already eaten this on me once, but I shall try again!

As promised (or threatened), photos of teh Zigs from this weekend

( won't someone think of the friends pages? )

So went to see Ziggy, took the camera and decided to post some before and afters, for comparison. OH. MY. GOD ( Read more... )

For my own reference really, the course I jumped yesterday (very roughly), but also on the off chance anyone was wondering what I meant by 'doglegs'. A dogleg is basically an angled turn, so you have to go
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. \ to get to the next jump. This course was a bit odd in that it had 2 doglegs right at the start, which basically meant you ( Read more... )