Category: home stuff
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AFK Days Two and Three
The back garden has Astro turf. I’ve mentioned it before but the past year it got bad. It is a constant effort to keep it clean/clear and this snowballs to the rest of the garden. We’ve decided to use this time to repaint with the idea that fresh paint will help until we can tackle…
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AFK Day One
Decided to start a sort of diary so I can look back on what happened over these two weeks. I’m AFK for the next two weeks. Originally it was the Easter Holidays but y’know, a pandemic happened. There is a trend now that people are doing more outdoor things and being more active, which is…
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Switching the kids rooms
Today was spent swapping the kids rooms. The Kid had the bigger room with built in wardrobes across one wall and a small desk alcove. Bamm-Bamm had a slightly smaller room but no built in storage. We flipped them. We’d been thinking about swapping for a bit, the games cupboard was getting a mess and…
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Trimming the hedge
At the weekend, my neighbour came round to say he’d cut it as he has the tools and mentioned it before. I’ve posted the odd photo of it before but suffice to say the hedge needed a good trim. Keith went to it like a man possessed and I started piling the branches. This is…
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Vacuum exercise
As I look at my 14 minutes exercise today on my Apple Watch, I’ve decided, Apple should consider vacuuming as an exercise.
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My favourite time of the year…
Got the new Recycling Calendar the other day. This makes me happy in a nerdy way 🤓 We have plastic boxes in the house to sort recycling before I put them into the outdoor wheelies. I have to say, when I saw our regular collection day of Tuesday was only being shunted to Wednesday for the…
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Boxing Day Boxes
Literally living the definition of Boxing Day today. Including the complete move about of a certain four-year-olds bedroom.
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Office Today
Since Automattic is a distributed company, this means employees can work from wherever they have internet access. This spawned the often updated blog Office Today. I’ve posted once before, about two weeks after I started full time at Brew Dog one afternoon: (Source) While a lot of my colleagues post from beaches, boats, office buildings,…
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