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wychwoodI'm feeling very domestic at the moment. I hosted a guest!! shreena stayed overnight, which meant having to remember what you do when there's someone else in the house, and that visitors need things, etc. But I don't think I forgot anything major.
I also got the tragic hot water situation resolved - my boiler suddenly stopped working, and I had to wait nearly a week for the plumber (he could have come on the day, but unfortunately I was in the office by the time he messaged, and had things on in the evening, so it would have been fairly inconvenient). Fortunately the only thing I use it for is washing up water (the shower is electric and I haven't needed to run the central heating even when it's cold never mind in alleged-late-spring), so I didn't think it would be that big a deal. It really was, though!
My washing up bowl isn't big enough to fit a dinner plate into; I'd boil a kettle and pour it in and start washing, but then need to rinse whatever I'd just washed off, and inevitably the cold water went everywhere all over the side around the sink and also into the sink water, so the hot water was lukewarm in minutes; I couldn't refill the kettle once I'd started using the last lot of boiling water because the sink was too full of water to get the kettle under the tap at any kind of useful angle; after about three items the water would be too disgusting to keep using... every single round of washing up was an exercise in extreme frustration, and I had a significant backlog that I was going to clean at the point where I realised the boiler wasn't working. I ate a lot of sandwiches and some takeaway.
However! Fortunately it was just a faulty sensor, and now I only have to fight normal levels of unwillingness to do the washing up and not also all of the logistical complications as well.
And then this morning I finished the current tranche of books in progress and now have a replacement set full of SHINY NEWNESS. The final stages of any batch are always a bit of a slog, because what's left is one fun book and all the things I hadn't been enjoying much which therefore hadn't been finished earlier. But right now everything in there looks exciting! In six weeks I'll find out which were the disappointments...
shreena stayed overnight, which meant having to remember what you do when there's someone else in the house, and that visitors need things, etc. But I don't think I forgot anything major.I also got the tragic hot water situation resolved - my boiler suddenly stopped working, and I had to wait nearly a week for the plumber (he could have come on the day, but unfortunately I was in the office by the time he messaged, and had things on in the evening, so it would have been fairly inconvenient). Fortunately the only thing I use it for is washing up water (the shower is electric and I haven't needed to run the central heating even when it's cold never mind in alleged-late-spring), so I didn't think it would be that big a deal. It really was, though!
My washing up bowl isn't big enough to fit a dinner plate into; I'd boil a kettle and pour it in and start washing, but then need to rinse whatever I'd just washed off, and inevitably the cold water went everywhere all over the side around the sink and also into the sink water, so the hot water was lukewarm in minutes; I couldn't refill the kettle once I'd started using the last lot of boiling water because the sink was too full of water to get the kettle under the tap at any kind of useful angle; after about three items the water would be too disgusting to keep using... every single round of washing up was an exercise in extreme frustration, and I had a significant backlog that I was going to clean at the point where I realised the boiler wasn't working. I ate a lot of sandwiches and some takeaway.
However! Fortunately it was just a faulty sensor, and now I only have to fight normal levels of unwillingness to do the washing up and not also all of the logistical complications as well.
And then this morning I finished the current tranche of books in progress and now have a replacement set full of SHINY NEWNESS. The final stages of any batch are always a bit of a slog, because what's left is one fun book and all the things I hadn't been enjoying much which therefore hadn't been finished earlier. But right now everything in there looks exciting! In six weeks I'll find out which were the disappointments...
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