One of the nice things about working for a uni is that the university closes for two days on most of the bank holidays – so yesterday was another painting day. I discovered that it takes me about 2 hours do a single coat on the walls and ceiling of our spare room – plus […]

Well, another day of decorating; a-painting, a-sanding, a-papering, a-caulking, and a-sawing, although not in that order. Got the replacement wallpaper up very quickly and easily (far more so then we were expecting). Got the new skirting-board bits on, and got all the bare wood primed. I had hoped to get a coat on the walls […]

We’ve started The Decorating of Our Spare Room – first task was to strip the manky old bit of wallpaper by the door (which got trashed by the electrician doing the re-wiring), and then put a new strip of wallpaper in it’s place. Inevitably the bit we’ve removed is an inch wider than the strip […]

I feel very unoriginal, but I’ve taken a shine to another new artist that R2 have been heavily playlisting, this time KT Tunstall, who did Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, but also the more engaging (in my opinion) Suddenly I see, which was enough to make me visit iTunes and part with another hard […]

Going out tonight to the Starbeck Tandoori, in our opinion one of the best curry houses in Harrogate. No time to say anymore as the baby sitter’s here! 🙂

A sad (but possibly understandable) habit of (computing) folks is to search for their own name in search engines – primarily Google these days. The main point is to see how far down the list one appears, but also because it’s interesting to see exactly what pages there are. Guess where this is going… So […]

Phew – Busy life. Had to give a reference for a friend last night, which ended up taking the better part of an hour, was out this evening with work, tommorow is kitchen painting (second, and hopefully final undercoat), Friday is shopping, and Saturday is going to the tip and writing Sunday’s sermon! Actually Sunday […]

A-ha; I’ve finally found a decent use for my Linux for Playstation 2 kit (well, at least until I get around to writing a game…) For a while now I’ve been thinking that if we ever have a party, it would be good to have music, but the problem with party music is that it […]

It’s no coincidence that if you say “RSS” out loud it comes out “arse”. I discovered that I’d completely stuffed up the RSS feeds from eutony.net, so much so that it was a surprise they worked at all. Should’ve gone to the Feed Validator before I made a song and dance about them. Anyway, I […]

Thursday night is painting night in the Handley household. Our task for August is to paint all the remaining bits and pieces of unfinished woodwork (the door, skirting board, couple of shelves – that kind of thing). Last week was sanding, tonight was priming the bare wood and putting an undercoat on the door. We […]