Ready to Go

Posted on Tue 01 September 2009 in general • Tagged with car, home, house

I dropped my car off at the body-shop for it's cosmetic surgery today. It will be there for 8-9 working days. On a completely unrelated note we have a completion date now which is in the scarily close sub-fortnight range. Hopefully we'll be moved into our new house the weekend …


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Lovely Evening

Posted on Tue 18 August 2009 in general • Tagged with birthday, food, house

Thanks for all the good wishes for yesterday. Despite spending the day in work it was actually a fairly interesting one for that. I headed back in time to enjoy the evening chatting with Fliss while enjoying a BBQ steak with fresh home grown tomatoes, supermarket corn on the cob …


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Spreadsheets and P60s

Posted on Thu 09 July 2009 in general • Tagged with house

This afternoon we will spend an hour or so with a bank going through P60's and my self-employment spreadsheet to see if we qualify for a mortgage. I'm suffering a little angst as this is the first time I've gone for money without a permanent job and I'm acutely aware …


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Big Numbers

Posted on Mon 06 July 2009 in general • Tagged with house

Yesterday we went for a cycle ride around Fen Ditton to get a feel for the place. Given that we already seem to be developing some roots in Milton it was good to know it's only a short cycle ride away. The principle target of the evaluation involved visiting a …


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Floods of biblical proportions

Posted on Fri 26 June 2009 in general • Tagged with house, twitter

I can't tell you exactly what I was doing when I heard that retro pop sensation Michael Jackson had died however I did find out on Twitter which I'm sure will make the BBC happy. However that's all I have to say on that matter as I have been preoccupied …


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