It seems that the rising oil prices around the world are beginning to hurt the average American. This is good news in my opinion.
The yanks drive around in cars that make our big Jags look positively clean so anything that makes them think a bit before leaping in their gas guzzler SUV is great. They [...]
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Tomorrow is a big event in the horse lovers world. No, I don’t mean Camillas wedding but the Grand National. I’ve nothing against horse racing but I personally really don’t like the Grand national. Making fences deliberately to decept horses that are jumping (putting hidden ditches on the far side etc etc) just seems a [...]
Well, finished all the undercoat plastering today and got a skim coat on most of the walls. Begining to look a little more like a room now! Things were going well till SWMBO decided that coving would look good in the room. Back to Wickes…
Wickes sell 3 types of coving. Paper coated plaster, fancy and [...]
well, one wall now has undercoat plaster Progress at last…
Time for a cuppa me thinks
Well, a few days off so time to attack the bedroom again. Spent monday at my sisters laying a new floor in their front room. Baby due in less than 2 weeks so rebuilding their living room is getting kinda urgent
Spent today finishing the lectrics in our bedroom (using my time machine to [...]
Sprog 1 is staying with MIL tonight so we have had the afternoon to ourselves (well, still had sprog 2 but she is less hassle :)). So what did we do with our afernoon of leisure? A relaxing afternoon doing nothing? No, we decided to start painting the fence.
This taught me several things.
Waterbased fence treatment [...]
I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft but they are actually doing something that I appove of at last
Radio 5 are this morning reporting that in an attempt to prevent the problems seen last year at the Bahrain GP with sand storms sprinklers have been fitted to the track. These will randomly trigger to damp down the sand and prevent it causing problems. Top news - this would be spectacular. Listen before midday [...]