I feel really bad (and a little annoyed with myself) for not having done much blogging (on here at least) in the past few months. Truth is, I’ve been busy almost-but-not-quite buying a flat, and sorting a few other things out. We’re now moving flat in three weeks, to a different bit of South London, [...]
A few weeks ago we got a letter through the post from TfL informing us that for several days there would be major roadworks on the road in front of our flat, taking place at nighttime. We weren’t too bothered by the news, as we don’t drive along the road, and our flat is at [...]
After the insect in our kitchen got identified as a cockroach last week, I got home yesterday to find that Fiona had not only seen the cockroach again, but had killed it. Okay, so she managed to smash a mug and cut her finger in carrying out this killing, but I was impressed nevertheless. I [...]
Last night my girlfriend Fiona and I were a little shocked to see this little insect climbing the kitchen wall of our flat (in London): Our fear is that it’s a cockroach… The image above is a bit crap, so I’m not sure if you can tell, but it does look a bit similar to [...]
I live in a small block of flats. Sometime in November, we got a letter from the freeholder management committee saying that, to improve security, a new security code entry panel would be installed in December. The code for this panel arrived a few days later. Come the end of December, though, nothing had happened. [...]
Hope you’re all having a nice Christmas. I got up earlier than everyone else, read a book for a bit, then my dad cooked us breakfast (including lavabread and cockles), then we went for a walk around Wanstead flats, then came back, ate some cake, drank some sherry and port, tried to solve the Bedlam [...]
I bought a PVR (personal video recorder) a month or so ago, and thought I’d write briefly on how it has changed my TV viewing habits. Firstly, the PVR is basically a Freeview set-top box with a 160GB hard disk in it so that it can record tv. After some research, I went for the [...]
Well, it’s started getting cold. Really cold. And so we flipped the central heating over to the timer for the first time about a week ago. And all was fine. (Although having a warm flat means that I always seem to get caught by suprise that it’s cold outside, as if my brain can’t quite [...]
Crikey. Have been too busy to have been able to think of much to post here recently, so this will be one of those inward-looking posts that just quickly lets you know what I’m doing at the moment. Have settled in quite nicely to my new flat in South London suburbia. It’s very quiet, but [...]
Well, what a busy weekend I had. Saturday was spent moving to my new flat in Dulwich, which was not without its upsets. The bed man arrived before we had got there (even though I had asked for it a bit later), and so it took many phone calls before we could finally pick it [...]