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This morning Jo and I went picked-up Sampson. Another White German Shepherd. We were adamant that we weren't getting an Amber lookalike. If you want to hear the gods laugh, say your plans out-loud. We took a little persuading by the lady at the rescue centre. Sampson needed a home, needed people who like white fur all over everything, needed people ( Read more... )

Rather excellent I thought. Jo said it was "...a bloody good advert for duct-tape". I may try and set up an experiment to test duct-tape's ability to work in Martian conditions ( Read more... )

Jo broke the screen on her Kindle 3 the other day. I could have ordered her a new screen, but decided best option was get a replacement Kindle 3. Partly because it would be a bit of a wait for the screen to arrive from China, partly because I liked the idea of fixing the broken one at my leisure once we'd registered her account to the new one, and ( Read more... )

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It's not all house restoration here ( Read more... )

I was persuaded to go out for Sunday lunch today. We weren't exactly sure where we would end up, I had more of an idea of where I didn't want to go that where I did. Along the way I mentioned to Jo that I thought we were near a second-hand bookshop we'd been to once before. It's one of those off the beaten track out of the way places. We found it ( Read more... )

Productive day.

Car load of junk taken to the dump The People's Recycling Facility No. 3457923 ( Read more... )

Spent the afternoon salvaging wood and insulating the garage door ( Read more... )

Back from a few days camping at The Festival of Wadness ( Read more... )