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Dean Martin.

I assembled the recliner in the attic and tried it out yesterday, very nice.

Picked up the Galaxy this morning from Vospers......£263.08 Lawks! The labour was £216.00 so that tells you how much was actually parts. I cancelled the service, no way we can afford that at the moment. We went out this morning because Tom Daly will be parading around the city in an open top bus for most of the midday period and travel will not be easy.

I had a long chat with Sal about Discworld yesterday and, for the first time, we waffled about characters as though they were real people. This shows just how much Discworld can get under your skin. It also shows how impressionable we both are. Nice one Pratchet!

I bought the curtain hooks and finished fitting them to the curtains, then I hung number six up. That is as far as I can go now until VWPaul has fitted the furniture.

A story.

I was sitting in the loo, minding my own business. Titch, smallest cat, had insisted on joining me but was now getting bored. After a couple of plaintive squeaks, she jumped up to the window and hung from the small top opening part by her claws. Now she began to scrabble at the large side opening window handle with her back feet. She kicked and pushed for about thirty seconds and then the window opened. She calmly dropped on to the sill and then down on to the roof below. If I can get a video of this, she could pay the next two years vets bills for her and her sister. Amazingly, once she was out, she came back in almost immediately.

I am playing with Zemanta at the moment, hence the added image and link. It looks good as long as it's not overdone.

Mission acomplished

Well, the latest one anyway.

Sal and I got rid of the latest batch of rubbish from the house cleaning and then on to the local sorting office to pick up a parcel that was too big to go through the letter box. It was, of course, the curtains. I realised as soon as I saw the card left by the postman what had happened. When I buy through EBay, the delivery address is set for the office. On this occasion, however, I had been invoiced through Paypal alone and Paypal only has my billing address. Hence the curtains being sent to my home address.

I had bought a hundred curtain hooks in anticipation so I hung what I could immediately. Unfortunately, 100 curtain hooks was not enough and I must now buy another 100 in order to complete my task.

The curtains themselves are magic, Hazel and I are very pleased with our choice of material and the quality is very good.

Breathing again!

We thought, yesterday, that Sal had swine flu. She had quite a few of the symptoms and was feeling very sorry for herself. By the evening, however, she was much better and ate a hearty meal....... I am beginning to suspect a hangover.........

I worked my doodahs off last night fitting the rails to the angle pieces and then mounting them all in janis. I was thwarted by the cab / habitation divider rail as I realised at the last minute that I can't fit it until VW Paul has worked his magic on the tall cupboard we are having fitted there.

Ian, Lulu, Steph and Dave all came in last evening for their long planned night out, Ian and Dave helped me get the recliner chair from Paul up to the attic.

A quiet night in.......

Porridge episode title. (TV Sitcom about prison starring Ronnie Barker)

I spent some time yesterday evening mounting the triple multi mains socket on the new Maplin box and then I mounted the DC outlet on it as well. It looks good and has left a very large amount of room free inside for any other needs in the rear of janis.

The rest of the evening I spent reading and watching TV and napping, mainly napping.

More Pooh!

It looks to me as though the fuel cut out switch is damaged. I tried to re set it this morning in a dryer car and it won't budge and seems pushed in too far to my reckoning. Anyway, the Galaxy is booked in to Vospers for a service and new switch on the fifth and they offered to have it in right away. If they get a cancellation, they have offered to do the work early......... nice thought.

The final bits and pieces have arrived from Hong Kong, very nice and thanks to the CE mark, legal in the UK. I had also ordered a 10 way multi type extension box for the attic and that has arrived as well so things are moving along again.

Oh Pooh!

Whilst not a very serious or expensive repair is involved, breaking down last night whilst taking Sal to work was not the most fantastic experience of my life. We only got as far as Cattedown roundabout and everything died. I immediately thought, "Cam belt" and started to worry. When the Green Flag man arrived, he immediately thought, "Cam belt" and checked it. We were both wrong, it was the fuel cut out switch. Someone up there still likes me.

Because I still can't trust the fuel cut out switch at present and Hazel is day off today, I caught a bus to work. As I wandered past the St Lukes Hospice shop, I saw a face I recognised. Ivy Ainsworth has written a book. Ivy is Bobs mother and I haven't seen her since my own illness in 1999 so I had no idea she was even still alive. I might just go and see her and get a copy.

I don't believe it! I just saw someone else from 1999 in Buffet City. Sarah from Ratio was there. She was the secretary and, by the time I returned to work after my health problems, she had left to start a family.

Let there be bandwidth.............

And lo, there was bandwidth and the added extra of more TV channels. I have to hand it to him, the chap from Virgin Media pulled out his thumb and handed me the plumb. As long as the price reduction comes through, I shall be well pleased.