Honestly, can there be anything more satisfying than a heavy thick drill in your hands as you shudder your way to making a hole in an up till then smooth blemishless surface. No. There isn’t. Today I have been a handywoman. I’ve been to the hardware store TWICE. Here are my projects. The first to [...]
House
So I came home after work yesterday and couldn’t open the front door. I could hear the tumblers shift but I could not open the door. I tried over and over. I had a new key so I thought it might have been inexpertly cut… but no. On trying both Hugamuga and Dippity’s keys I [...]
So Groover has gone and upped the ante on the televisual system. We’ve got a playstation – that we also use to play dvds, and a PVR – Personal Video Recorder – basically a hard drive that will record television. I do love a PVR as you get a telly guide and that makes recording [...]
Is they accumulate in odd places, in those drawers you keep meaning to clean out, like sand in a beach carpark or dust bunnies under the bed they drift together until you have no idea what they were for or even if they were yours in the first place. I was at my brother’s house [...]
Today I thought I’d write about my favourite television program of the week. Yes even more than Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares or Desperate Housewives, the show I most look forward to is Grand Designs… on ABC1 at 6.05pm on a Thursday… and there’s an earlier series shown on Tuesdays at 11.00am. What I love about this [...]
May I just say that that’s what I call watching cricket. And before you get the wrong idea let me give you the background. We got up this Sunday morning. I made the bed (I was the last one out of bed – so that’s fair), went down to the shops to get some fruit [...]
We call him The Dark Horse. He has been a friend of Groover’s since school and is coming out for an Australian Christmas with his girlfriend and helpfully staying at our place while we bugger off to a big family Christmas in the snow. We don’t often have guests but whenever we do we are [...]
It has been a while since I organised my larder. Maybe years? Certainly it hasn’t been properly cleaned out since 2005. Shocking I know. There is something internally cleansing about taking everything out, throwing out the sunflower seeds reduced to dust; re-discovering empty tupperware containers named brown rice and self-raising flour; finding the old jar [...]
I never thought I’d grow up and live in a house without pets. My dog when I was growing up was a black labrador/corgi cross – think labrador face, shortish legs and stout. Her name was Hannah. I used to lie in bed of a morning and hear her thunder up the stairs, along the [...]
