Homebase, B&Q, Currys, Homebase again, Tescos, B&Q again. Yes, I am a homeowner.
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Saturday 9th October
Posted on October 17, 2010 by nealmartin
Our first free Saturday at our new address. We spend the morning sorting out a few boxes and I make an attempt to mow the grass. It ends in disaster as my Flymo churns up the sodden turf and turns the verdure into a muddy dark grey. This is the garden striking the first blow. [...]
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Sunday 3rd October
Posted on October 10, 2010 by nealmartin
Lily wakes up with a cold. She has been invited to her first birthday party from a classmate at her new school. I feel sorry for her being cajoled to dance when she would obviously like to be at home. I take Daisy to the park as she (and her sister) have been good girls [...]
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Sunday 19th September
Posted on September 22, 2010 by nealmartin
I am feeling a little better. I work a little in the morning and then get back to the house to paint the kitchen and the dining – a solid 5-hour session that puts me back on schedule. I get back around seven and spend the evening in quiet repose on the sofa, ensuring that [...]
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Friday 17th September
Posted on September 19, 2010 by nealmartin
Dad arrives in the morning with a hired industrial sander. I have used one of these before and I must admit that when you fire them up, they can be a bit unnerving what with the deafening din, the dust and sparks. But once you get into the swing of it, it is not so different [...]
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Tuesday 2nd September
Posted on September 8, 2010 by nealmartin
All day writing. I spend a lot of time pummelling the Internet and I am realizing just how much crap it is filling up with. Everything is about connections and lists. Nobody is bothering with original content. It’s all about building huge shopping lists of links with minimal information…if any. Or websites dependent upon user-generated [...]
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Tuesday 24th August
Posted on August 29, 2010 by nealmartin
What’s happened to the summer? It was all going well until the end of July and then this month it has just pissed down. How depressing. I spend most of the day writing interspersed with trying to sort out a couple of things for the house. Cue hours spent talking to automated machines to organize [...]
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Saturday 24th July
Posted on July 27, 2010 by nealmartin
Drive down to Waitrose in the morning. For some reason, whenever we physically visit the supermarket we spend more than visiting Ocado. And this is despite me sacrificing my 99p gingernuts! In the evening I rustle up some nifty lamb chops with a bottle of Calon-Segur 2006 and then I am so knackered from writing [...]
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Sunday 4th July
Posted on July 9, 2010 by nealmartin
In the morning I take Lily & Daisy on their bikes to Stoke Park. We stop for an ice-cream, most of which ends up smudged around their faces, the into the children’s playground where Lily impresses with her athleticism. Is she too young for the 2012 Olympics? She is so agile across the beams that [...]
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Tuesday 29th June
Posted on July 8, 2010 by nealmartin
I wake up to join the rest of the TWA team for breakfast, although I appear to be the only one succumbing to the delights of eggs over easy at the Marriot (I guess the others are swotting up on TWA scores, just in case we are tested.) I walk to a nearby restaurant for [...]
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