Jun
30
House (On) Hold
June 30, 2007 | Comments Off
So - quick update. We didn’t complete yesterday, but we have some breathing space. While I was on a plane yesterday, The Mrs took charge and sorted it all out. So we’re exchanging at the start of next week and completing early the following week. Which will mean we actually become owners while we’re away […]
Jun
30
Like A Lamb To The Slaughter
June 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Oldest and dearest friend Simon has taken the plunge and started a blog, and as he’s been kind enough to add me to his blogroll (yes, and I still hate that word), I’ve done likewise. This may be an easier way of keeping track of each other than actually picking up the phone and […]
Jun
26
The King Of Dreadful Timing
June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
So I’m in the US this week, dealing with the unfortunate effects of being eight timezones away from home at exactly the same time as all the transactions of the flat sale and house purchase will hopefully be happening. If we don’t complete on the flat by Friday then we may well be kissing goodbye […]
Jun
24
End Of An Era
June 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
I just left my flat for the last time. Everything is packed and stored that’s being packed and stored. Everything is junked that’s being junked. The cleaners are going in tomorrow, and with a fair wind the sale should complete by Friday of this week. It had better - if it doesn’t we’ll probably lose […]
Jun
24
The Sound Of Drums (Spoilers)
June 24, 2007 | Comments Off
Okay, so the other good intention - to get caught up of Doctor Who series three before writing about the two final episodes - has conspicuously not been achieved. What can I say - it’s a busy old time.
But I have to leap right in and talk about The Sound Of Drums, episode 12 […]
Jun
23
The Road To Hell
June 23, 2007 | Comments Off
I had all sorts of good intentions to post interesting and discursive material yesterday about the trip I was on for the last couple of days. But then I spent quite a lot of time in an airport departure lounge and eventually got home at ten past two this morning, and have consequently lost the […]
Jun
21
We, The People
June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment
There’s an ad in today’s Independent, and I assume in other papers, headed “Fellow Citizens”. This alone is the kind of opening that tends to have me expecting a rant about immigration and the decline of Britishness. My eye trailed to the bottom expecting it to be signed by Robert Kilroy Silk or similar.
But no. […]
Jun
21
Longest Day
June 21, 2007 | Comments Off
The nights’ll be drawing in now then… :-)
Jun
19
Going Quietly Mad
June 19, 2007 | 2 Comments
Can anyone, anyone at all, explain to me why I have the nightmarish My Grandfather’s Clock going round and round in my head *all* the time at the moment?
Is it being used in an ad? I can’t think where else it would have come from, but wherever it is, I’d like it to stop please.
Sphere: […]
Jun
18
External Storage
June 18, 2007 | 4 Comments
It’s well known that the self-storage industry has had a bit of a boom in recent years - the things are everywhere, in London at least. My assumption has been that the cost of property is such that in order to afford somewhere to live, people have to give up minor luxuries like storage space. […]