I’m a big fan of anything that is shiny, or has buttons. Regular readers will know this. If not, well, can you guess what phone I have? It’s not a difficult question…. So when Frances was designing our kitchen, I was delighted to discover that my love of shinybuttony things could be brought to [...]
Further to my post a month ago, Frances called Artisan Furniture again. They certainly don’t seem inclined to demonstrate any sort of initiative themselves. It appears Artisan themselves have little firm idea as to when we can expect our unit. They’re pointing their finger at their suppliers and suggesting (as far as we can tell), that [...]
Two separate matters, but the same issue: Delays. First up, we decided a while back that we needed to get our slate roof replaced. For our own reasons, we didn’t progress it particularly quickly. With a crap summer, and a calm few weeks, it didn’t seem to have been a bad decision. Then getting quotes took [...]
I’m sorry to report that a dear friend that had become an integral part of my life has very recently departed. This has left me feeling somewhat at a loss for a few days, although I seem to have found a way of coping with this most unexpected of exits. This is probably the reason [...]
For the last year or so I’d been using the loft as an office. However, it was getting problematic for a number of reasons: It was cold and silly to heat; It was a long way up those loft stairs in your socks; It was a long way away from the coffee machine. Most importantly [...]
It’s very easy to criticise, much harder to compliment. Certainly when we’ve felt somewhat under siege at times with incompetent companies doing work in our house and leaving us high and dry (here), or going to restaurants and leaving nonplussed about the experience (here and here), letting off some steam on this website is a [...]
Just a minor update that has big implications - We have finally got a spare bed! Well, futon. Picked it up a couple of weeks ago, and this weekend I’ll be putting it together. It’s a good futon (only the best will do for our friends :-), so should be plenty comfortable enough. So, all those [...]
Sorry for the silence over the last while. Life has very much got on top of things, and there’s not much exciting me immensely that I feel I have to rush to the computer and blog about it. Running I’ve been suffering a little from shin-splints, which - combined with a few other things - has meant [...]
We finally got around to checking out an ebay drop shop near us in Glasgow. It’s part of the bidway group/franchise. We’d heard about it through Frances’ parents, but we’d not got around to popping in until this morning. Our problem, since our kitchen refit, has been we’ve had an AEG Designer Cooker Hood (HD8795M) [...]
Yesterday saw folk turn up to repair the neighbours path. Lots of head scratching was involved when they realised the problem hadn’t been solved, but they proceeded apace anyway. We still had lots of water in our garden, so I phoned up Scottish Water once more to find out what was going on. To cut a [...]
