Stuff This Week #42

A twofer this week as I’ve not been posting quite as much recently. Just got quite a bit going on so just haven’t felt like posting quite as much. And that’s totally ok.

The image shows a squirrel clinging to the side of a large tree trunk. The squirrel appears to be a grey squirrel, with its body positioned vertically along the tree. The background includes a well-maintained grass lawn, indicating a park-like setting. The sunlight casts a gentle light, highlighting the texture of the tree bark and the squirrel's fur. — A squirrel I saw walking this morning. He didn’t care I was there. 🐿️

We got a quote for chimney repairs. It’s a LOT of money.

We love our house but we’re torn about pouring thousands of pounds yet again into this place and hoping it’s finally the end of our troubles vs just cutting our losses, selling up and moving out.

I’m off for 4 days now so we’re going to sit and talk through our options. 😕

Chimney leaked during the storm in the night 😒

Fire up the time & money pits yet again.

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Ikea upgrade was deployed today. You can never have a big enough pegboard 🔨

I still have lots of hooks and bits I can deploy. Just need to think of what to do with them🤔. Happy to have more space to work with though!

The image shows a neatly organised pegboard mounted on a wall. At the top, a mechanical keyboard is stored horizontally on hooks. Below, headphones hang from a hook on the left-hand side. The pegboard has a small white container attached on the right side, holding some stationary items like pens. At the bottom, a tray holds various items including a laptop and a notebook. The setup is surrounded by framed artworks, contributing to a tidy and aesthetically pleasing workspace. — Old & Busted

The image shows a well-organised wall-mounted pegboard setup. Twice the size of the previous image. The board features various shelves and hooks holding different items. At the top, two computer keyboards are placed on shelves. Below them, a pair of headphones hangs from a hook. Small containers on the board hold a variety of items, such as a deck of cards, a remote control, a smartphone, a gaming controller, and a small toy car. Above the pegboard, a framed picture of a building with an interesting architectural design is mounted on the wall. — New Hotness

This is a floor plan of a rectangular room featuring a sofa bed positioned along the top wall, with a lamp placed on its left side. On the right side of the room, there is a fridge. The room has two doors on the left side, one at the top left corner and another at the bottom left. Along the bottom wall, there is a TV stand with a TV, and next to it on the right is a shelving unit with a router on it. The door opens inward, showing the room's arrangement is compact and efficient.

Friend gave me the tip of using diagrams.net to make a roughly to scale diagram for renovating my study so I can put potential purchases in the space and move them around. Works really well!

Everyone thinks they’re hot stuff until they are tasked with taking up a glued down vinyl floor with a hairdryer a hammer and a scraper 😅

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Seriously this is hard work 😓 🔨

Stuff This Week #38

Welcome one and all! It’s been a week of progress with house repairs being done, new blogs being worked on, posts being posted and just generally gettin’ it done darn it 💪

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🍔 Someone at work informed me that Golden Arches Unlimited the official McDonalds merch store is open now in the UK. You’re talking to the man who made a friend through the desire to acquire a US only McDonalds sesame seed bun hoodie. What can I say? Sometimes the internet is Awesome.

It reminded me of another story of the internet and trust back when the very first iPhone released in the states and the UK launch was months away, I paid an unknown acquaintance on a video game forum ¹ the cost of the phone in USD and shipping charges hoping his offer was legit. The phone turned up a few days later and was perfect, which then resulted in me being a middle man for several other friends in the UK that just had to have the iPhone.

The leak is found! It is on an outside pipe. Needs new pipe rerouted to fix. Can be fixed hopefully by end of day Monday! Cold showers until then 😂

Feel a lot calmer knowing what and where it is though! The uncertainty is what gets to me.

What a gas

Well…apparently you can never have nice things in this world without keeping balance.

On the day I should be enjoying my new iPhone and sharing new gadget excitement I’m instead worried and stressed because after having our gas meter replaced yesterday a gas leak was detected and so our gas had to be shut off 🤦‍♂️

So we are without hot water and I’m awaiting a gas engineer coming around to find the leak and (hopefully🤞) fix it.

Recycled all of the 20-25 year old gaming magazines from my youth that I’ve lugged around for….4 house moves? I don’t really know why they were so hard to get rid of. Nostalgia is powerful I guess.

Tried to donate them, but turns out no one really wants them! ¹

How odd! 😂 ↩

Or instead of Apple boxes perhaps you like the classics?

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Roofer Roulette : A No-Show Saga

Well the roofer I was praising the other day never came back to see us today after saying he would… 🤷‍♂️

No call. No email. Nothing.

We’ve left a voicemail/sent an email as we’ve done with other companies but I’ve been down this road multiple times and I don’t think we’ll hear from them again. They’ll just continue to duck us until we give up trying to contact them if it follows the same pattern.

Stuff This Week #23

I haven’t taken a single photo this week with my phone! 😳 So here’s an emergency Trio picture for the purpose of this post.

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Well, it’s certainly been a week where middle aged men are not afraid to tell you their opinions on RSS/Unified timeline apps or indeed podcast apps ¹ 😜

📱 Phone press conference next week, so nearly new phone time. I’ll be excited to try out the AI stuff to see if it makes Siri actually useful. More excited for the cameras. 48mp ultra wide and a 7x optical zoom (up from 5x) are rumoured!

Had a roofer round this morning to look at our leaky chimneys and to quote to replace an extension roof.

Dude was on time, extremely knowledgeable, spoke with clear solutions in mind and is coming back on Tuesday with his drone to closer scout the chimneys out before quoting.

Properly impressed.

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