After warbling around somewhat unpromisingly during the week, the state of the kitchen is now, against all odds… clean. Well, sans the stovetop, oddly, but… sweet. I can actually find a surface to put things on again! Yay! In contrast to this blissful occurrence, I just a little while ago walked in on Francisco’s dad… Read more

My attempted tyre repair yesterday apparently failed. I didn’t do a very good job, granted, but I can’t find any actual evidence the repaired puncture is still leaking. But I can’t find any leak. It’s a very slow one, but I’m not going to go back to the pattern of inflating it twice a day.… Read more

In immeasurably more uplifting news, dad emailed me a week or so ago to inform me that both he and mum would be coming over in December. It was very much out of the blue – dad had been talking about visiting this year for ages, yet I figured it was about as good as… Read more

So, it’s been three weeks in the new place… over a month since we took possession. So how’s it been? …. ‘good’… in the general… non-commital… sense… For the most part it is good; driving to work gets on my mind a bit from an environmental aspect – though I did fix my flat tire… Read more