LJ is my memory

[bunn]

I'm just writing this entry to record that this weekend, we cleaned out the Augean Garage, although frankly, horse poo a la the Augean Stables would have been much more welcome and easier to clean than what was actually in there. Do not click if spiders bother you. They bother me, but sometimes, needs must.

Comments

[heartofoshun]

This is one of the most heroic deeds I have read of recently and I am not even principally referring the spiders! Jobs like that are overwhelmingly difficult to face--and increasingly so as time goes by.

Congratulations!

[bunn]

So. Glad. It's. Over.

[timetiger]

O valiant and dauntless Bunn!

[bunn]

I was quite severely daunted at one point. SO GLAD IT'S OVER.

[king_pellinor]

Knock it down? But that'll leave a car-sized space right next to your front gate! Whatever will you do with that?!?

[anna_wing]

Well done! There is nothing like razing to the ground and salting the earth (or at any rate having it treated for termites).

[bunn]

I am very grateful that at least it is too cold here for termites! Woodworm is bad enough.

[anna_wing]

Yes, there is apparently even a variety that will happily chew through concrete on its way to all that nice cellulose.

[bunn]

ERK.

[wosny]

My (Welsh) father always said ach-y-fi, although I didn't know how it was spelled.
I feel this heroic deed should inspire me to clear the space under the staircase where the puppies used to live. I have to leave here soon and it would be unthinkable to leave it, however it needs strength ( sad face #rib) and willpower... I have checked the opening hours of the local dechetterie. Watch this space.
It is definitely ach-y-fi.

[philmophlegm]

I'm pretty sure it's ych a fi, not ach-y-fi.

[bunn]

The Swansea pronunciation that I grew up with is closer to 'ugger vee'. But when I googled spelling it, Google seemed to think ach-y-fi was the thing.

It seems to be a dialect word anyway, so I doubt there is a really 'correct' spelling.