Things are slowly grinding towards completion. After a number of holdups, we’re just waiting for confirmation that Persimmon will still pay our rent based upon completion on the 15th. Lots of stress on at the moment with wedding preparation, house stuff, Hannah’s exams and trying to find her a job. Just got to keep it… Read More »
Spent all day saturday laying laminate flooring for Hannah’s parents. It’s looking pretty good, which is relieving as I was a bit apprehensive about stuffing it up. Once Hannah and I got going we had a good system going and got on pretty well. It was SPÅN from Ikea and looks pretty nice although it… Read More »
There are some house pictures of the house “here.”:/house.html They’re pretty bad quality, but give some idea of what it’s like inside. We’re a bit concerned at the moment that the top of the chain wants to complete on the 4th April. They’re moving to a new build and the builder is applying pressure. That’s… Read More »
I’ve upgraded WordPress to 1.5. It was straightforward for me, although I had to hack one of the scripts a bit to deal with my dynamic php/css stuff. I managed to stuff up Hannah’s at first but a bit of hacking on the posts database fixed things. The templates seem pretty good, much better than… Read More »
I really dislike being pressured into decisions. We started using an “independent” mortgage advisor when we first thought about buying a house. The way this worked was that we agreed a particular fee on completion of purchasing a house through him. At first it seemed like the right decision because we’ve never bought a house… Read More »
I have, it must be said, been extremely slack with this blog lately. It’s not exactly that I’ve been doing nothing, just that I can’t find the enthusiasm to blog it. Things change. As readers of Hannah’s blog will know, we’ve made some progress on getting our first house. Things have moved very fast so… Read More »
I’m writing this up for my own benefit as it will be faster to find next time I forget. I have problems installing Ubuntu on my laptop as it does not provide debian style floppy-based installation media. My CDROM drive is totally shot, so all I have is a floppy drive or network card as… Read More »
I had a fantastic Christmas this year. The reasons for this are: * !/pics/2004_1223204642.thumb.jpg (Hannah)! – we spent Christmas day on our own in our flat, and it was peaceful and relaxed and really good fun and Hannah is lovely. * !/pics/2004_1225233153.thumb.jpg (Snow)! – it snowed! * !/pics/2004_1225163425.thumb.jpg (Full plate)! – I had lots of… Read More »
Bah. I got hacked. I think it was probably due to a couple of files being world writeable (i.e. index.php and a style file) mainly due to my laziness in editing them in the wordpress editor. I won’t be doing that again. Of course, I may get hacked again, in which case it must be… Read More »
Hannah and I had a rare social engagement at the weekend. We booked a hotel room in Nottingham, shared with JCM and his delightful personal habits and then had an enjoyable evening at Dave Brailsford’s Christmas Bash. I really enjoyed myself. I ate, drank and was merry. I even discovered a couple of wines that… Read More »