Fliss gets up quite early now to get the early train into London. As a result my 8.10 last minute warning alarm to get out of bed is a little to late. I left the house at about 8.25 this morning and the cycle to work really only takes 10 minutes. I suspect this is [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
fanfic, bicycles, thought crime
I have a number of custom Google searches for my surname that feed my RSS reader. These usually throw up references to Justin Bennee a snow-border who may or may not be related to me. However today it threw up a slightly more “interesting” result from it’s use as the name of a character in [...]
Empty House
I spent my second night in our new house alone as Fliss has a prior engagement down in London. This wasn’t so bad as it has given me a chance to finish setting up my office (after much searching through boxes to find my PC) and catch up on some TV. Lost seems to be [...]
New House, Old Boxes
Today is brought to you by the power of bluetooth and mobile phones Yesterday was a very long one. We left Manchester at 7 in the morning to make sure we got to Cambridge in time to pick up keys. In the event we made very good time because even on a bank holiday weekend [...]
Guilt, but not much
You feel slightly guilty as you sit back and play GTAIV while people potter around your house and pack stuff into boxes. However the feeling passes after a while, it’s certainly how a plan to move next time
Wow
That was a big swing.
Clean Room
Well my office is now cleaner than it has been in probably 7 or so years. Which is a shame really seeing as it’s going to get packed into boxes tomorrow. Although I’m paying for men to pack my house it seems a little silly to pack crap so I’ve been ruthless in weeding out [...]
Migration, take two
Second time lucky. The removals firm is booked and Fliss and I will be emigrating to Cambridge this coming weekend. I’m more than a little apprehensive about fitting 3 bedrooms, 2 reception rooms and a cellar into the new (smaller) house. However Fliss has done some sterling work mapping out both houses in Google SketchUp [...]
It’s like they never read 1984
I don’t know why this government has such a fetish for these grand monitoring schemes. From ID cards to detention without trial this has got to be one of the most illiberal governments we have ever had in this country. The state has no right to routinely monitor me “just in case” I am going [...]
Stand and Deliver
Oh dear. It seems that stands for plasma TV’s are expensive. I suspect it’s going to be around �200 just so I can use my TV when I move. Does anyone recommend any companies that supply these things. I’m currently looking at stuff from The Plasma Centre and the humorously names Stand and Deliver. UPDATE:At [...]
