Saturday, February 16, 2008
Want to buy a flat?
In the photos you can see the spangly new bathroom and recently repainted living room, which we didn't know the tenants had redecorated. Apparently they've done a good job - shame they won't get the chance to enjoy it! Luckily they're being very understanding about the sale and have kept the place in good nick.
It's a bit sad to see the old place up for sale, but it's also exciting to set the wheels in motion towards getting our own place in Lostwithiel. The housing market has slowed down a bit recently but Brighton is always ahead of the rest of the country, and Halls reckon it should only take about 6 weeks to get an offer.
With the boot on the other foot, we've been having problems of our own as tenants. The boiler started dripping at the start of January so a chap came to fix that, then it started dripping in a new place so another chap came to fix what the last chap did wrong. Then it started making ominous clanking and groaning noises, so a third chap came and pronounced it kaput. What with plumbers talking to managing agents talking to landlords talking to us, we've been without hot water and heating for the last 5 days - just as the weather has turned particularly frosty. The landlords brought round some electric heaters yesterday so we're a bit more cosy now, but I'm looking forward to a bath.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Scrabulous!
Kat: Not a reference to the highly addictive and potentially copyright-infringing FB game, I'm talking about what was possibly my highest score ever in a Scrabble game. Last night I earned 104 points for MARCHERS (the triple word tile and 50 bonus for using all my letters). It doesn't come close to Karl Khoshnaw's gargantuan 392 points for CAZIQUES in 1982 but was immensely satisfying on a personal level. Despite this, it didn't clinch the game - I just scraped a victory with 394 to Mat's 381.Sunday, February 03, 2008
Project 365
I'm uploading them to two places, the gallery here on matnkat.com and also my Flickr account. There's more detail about the picture on Flickr, and you can leave comments too, so if you're interested in seeing my daily highlight I'd recommend checking there. I'm not the only person doing this either - there's a Flickr group dedicated to it called Project 365. Why not join the fun?
Only 356 days to go.