Month August 2008

While one end of the street were busy sweeping and dusting this morning, the other end were out with vacuum cleaners. Definitely one-up-manship!

Well, you may remember that when we took Sam to be neutered, it turned out that he was missing an huevo. This had all sorts of implications and we were delighted when it appeared earlier this week. This wore off…

Well, I seem to have caused some bemusement when I said we would tumble glass in the cement mixer. We’d get two results – put the glass in without sand and the glass will rub against itself, softening the edges.…

We had a treat last night. The cheese was for our anniversary, the champagne was from our wedding and the wine was a special bottle to go with the cheese – especially the award winning cheese on the right (thank…

Well, if there was an Olympic event for carrying a feather in proportion to your own hight, I think we know who will win. We were sat having lunch when we saw this feather ‘walking’ towards us. On closer inspection…

Yesterday was another good day. Firstly I invented nano hydro-electric power yarn. Secondly we went to Sevilla and had another good day looking at things. Admittedly our list of 102 things has probably expanded rather than contracted, but saying that…

We went out today to cost our list of 102 things that we need (it continues to grow). We found some excellent stores in Badajoz and managed to get prices, or at least ideas for most of what we wanted.…

I dreamt that Ian got arrested for buying a bright green kitchen. It was a very vivid dream – as, indeed, was the color of the kitchen. There is a message there somewhere. We’ve got a list of 98 things…

Still in the full thrust of dynamism, we’ve started planning what needs to be done where, which has entailed drawing up a plan. Happily, Ian has an electronic tape measure, unfortunately it is difficult to work, therefore it took several…

Mum alerted me to this – It is very interesting – all the more so as we went to Badajoz last week.