Seems like just the other month I reached my first 1000 spam comments – now it’s up to 7000! These are all automatically flushed away thankfully…
Busy Weekend
A very grown up weekend of having friends round for dinner on Friday evening and then different ones round on Saturday evening. Lorraine did well cooking a variety of dishes both nights – yum! Then on Sunday we cycled out to mum’s and got fed Haggis, tatties and neeps followed…
Flat rented?
With all but a wee bit of sealant done on Saturday, we put the flat on gumtree and citylets. Sunday morning I headed round to the flat after dropping Lorraine off at her class. Several phonecall, emails and one viewing later it looks like we have a tenant – just…
World premiere
Not quite a black tie and red carpet affair, but was still great to be a part of it! What am I talking about? New James Bond film, latest Pirates of the Caribbean? Nope. The Man Who Cycled the World I headed through to Glasgow to the BBC offices at…
Sealant… There must be an easier way
One of the jobs I hate the most about DIY is doing the sealant… After spending ages tiling/grouting/fitting vinyl/worktops/etc you have to apply sealant in various places to waterproof joints. I can never make it neat. It always ends up spreading too far onto the surfaces I am sealing (probably…
Mark on TV
Mark Beaumont round the world cycle documentary is coming soon to BBC2 Scotland. For those of you who don’t know, I voluntarily did the website for his world record breaking circumnavigation. I was reminded to post this as I’ve just seen an trailer for it on TV! How cool is…
Flat progress
Moving on from tiling/plumbing/painting – tonight Matthew, I am going to be a carpet fitter. (well vinyl) Flat is coming along nicely, lots of wee finishing jobs to do – screwing things to walls and cleaning up a bit. Vinyl fitting isn’t as easy as it looks! I think I’ve…
Upgraded Blog
You probably don’t notice it – although it is supposed to be a wee bit faster – but I’m using the latest newly upgrade version of WordPress. Lots of changes from an Admin point of view behind the scenes making it easier to organise things. Does this mean I’ll post…
Mysterious goings on in Wardlaw Street
Not my tiling efforts this time – much more sinister! Evening News Article BBC News
Long weekend
In more ways than one… Glad to get back to work for a rest 🙂 Friday and Monday were spent at the flat – doing the last of the tiling in the kitchen and generally cleaning up a bit. Monday the new double glazing got fitted – what a difference!…