Archive for April, 2006

No boxes, some boxes and a farewell

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Today we finished unpacking, and completed a few of the odd jobs that were still on our home-made ’snagging list’. At least when we return from Edinburgh tomorrow we’ll come back to a fairly tidy house. The entrance hall, however, looks pretty much like the image above. That’s Bank Holiday Monday’s task, […]

Making connections

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Today’s major domestic task was to connect up the various AV equipment in the living room (or ‘lounge’ if you prefer that term). As you can see from the diagram above it was a simple case of connecting cables to ports.
To be honest I didn’t find the above diagram, from our Philips digibox, particularly […]

Where in the world is the bath?

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I love maps! If I had it my own way I would even own a map. So it was with delight the other day in Argos in St Andrews when Jane and I were gaily flicking through the Argos catalogue on our Quest to Buy a Shower Curtain™ that I spotted the world’s […]

The Write Stuff

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Yesterday was, and today will be, spent mostly writing. Typing, if you want to be pedantic. (I sense that in you today.)
Letter
The first thing I needed to do was finish my final clergy letter for the Church of the Good Shepherd’s monthly magazine. Not surprisingly this was the easiest letter yet. […]

View for today

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I’m currently sitting at my desk finishing off a few items of work for the parish and the province. Sadly*, however, this is the view from my desk.
(* irony)

We’ve finally moved in!

Monday, April 24th, 2006

At last! Our bedroom is now habitable. New duvet cover from Ikea, in case you were wondering. Artwork by Sarah Carrington.
Tonight will be our first night in the new house. Since Tuesday evening we’ve been sleeping next door in our holiday cottage, while during the day we’ve been setting up the house. […]

Before and after

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Before

After