FAIL

I give in, I’ve called an irrigation expert to come round this afternoon – the pump packed in today *sob* Thats pretty much everything mechanical in the house thats been replaced or fixed so far!

more things off the list..

Been a busy boy this week – managed to get a few things done from the list Fixed the leaking hot water relief valve. Well, thats a slight untruth – one of my friends who had some spare PTFE tape and a spanner put the new valve on for me. I could have done it, but I’d just spend a fortune on tools and…

digging in the dirt

No, not a song by Peter Gabriel, but my own attempts at turning the back garden into a scene from Time Team. Spent yesterday digging up the back garden to try to make sense of the irrigation system. First, I fixed the broken pipe and sprinkler – a five minute task made much harder as its not obvious in the shop which parts go…

bugger

Just put the spade through one of the reticulation pipes whilst trying to trace them across the garden so I can fix a few non-functioning sprinklers. And gaffer tape didn’t fix it. Arse.

jobs around the house

I sat down to think about this last night and its a bit of a long list 1. re-do family bathroom. remove the wall between the loo and the bathroom, block up old loo door, put in new windows (glass blocks I think, rather than window panes) 2. re-carpet, or more likely, wood floors down throughout the house. The slate floor is reasonably new…

bore-dom

I think I wrote about this before.. The bore packed up working at the very end of last summer – suddenly the pump was only pumping air and the grass had a few weeks of cooking (from which is hasnt really recovered over the winter) A few attempts at restarting the flow of water earlier in the year had no effect, but I finally…

oh no..

I feel it coming sore throat tingle in my nose headache general feeling tired achey joints Yup, I have an lurg coming arse. Hope its just a small and pathetic one I can throw it off quickly cos I’ve had enough of being sick this year. In other news, I arranged a skip for Saturday to get rid of all the garden rubbish that…

film addict

The Holga’s aren’t even here yet and I’m already thinking about what 35mm film camera to get to replace the broken OM10. I think I’ve decided on a couple of old school cheapies – no reason to get flashy with my ambitions as all I really want is to recreate the vintage feel of photos from when I were a lad. Well, that and…

its unheard of

I had to stop eating chocolate after only a few rows last night I know – never happened before – but I really dont like the way Cadburys Dairy Milk tastes here. *sob*

points of view

No, not the old BBC weekly letters summary with Barry Took, or later, the institution that is Wogan, but just some meaderings of cranial possibility.. Last week was was an interesting week..well..not that interesting actually, but you’re gonna hear about it anyway 😉 Work wise – I’ve had  last minute projects requiring working longer hours than I wanted, which was annoying as I missed getting out and…