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Verdict: House Not Falling Down
22 February 2007
Read moreThe survey results are in for the house (here’s the obligatory link to previous episodes of this story) and there are fewer nasty shocks than we feared. It does have damp issues, the roof is missing a few slates, the guttering needs looking at and the electrics/gas need …
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5 Things I'll Miss About My Job - And 5 Things I Won't
21 February 2007
Read moreIn case you missed it I’m leaving my job. I’ve been with the company one year and its had its ups and downs, I thought I’d share some of each.
Things I’ll Miss
- My colleagues. It took them months to speak to me at all, and …
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A Recruiter Dropped Me In It
21 February 2007
Read moreI resigned last week1, and my manager said he wasn’t surprised. A recruiter rang him a few weeks ago and announced “I have the perfect candidate for you! ... oh wait, she already works for you … sorry …”
Can you spot the one word that identifies which member of the …
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Pancakes
21 February 2007
Read moreToday’s recipe is the obligatory follow-up to Shrove Tuesday yesterday. I had actually forgotten it was pancake day until I got in from the gym starving!
Pancake Batter
- 4oz plain flour
- 1 egg
- half a pint of milk
weight the flour (sift it if you like, I never bother …
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Mortgage Muddles
20 February 2007
Read moreI’d be the first to admit that our path along the house-buying road (see all house posts if you missed earlier episodes) hasn’t been straightforward. So far we’ve had:
- Three offers accepted on different houses
- Two different solicitors
- Two different estate agents
- One mortgage arranged, then the …
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String Basket
20 February 2007
Read moreThere’s a lot of craft entries going on here at the moment I know but actually I’ve just had a binge at finishing things off rather than actually creating things at speed.
Here’s my string basket:
Its going to hold all those little samples that you get …
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Big Wool Bag
19 February 2007
Read moreThe good news is that I’m nearly at the end of my pink big wool stash, so there might be some less-matching items appearing here soon. However today I’d like to show off the bag that I’ve made to go with the mittens and the hat.
The …
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Coldspring Mill
18 February 2007
Read moreI haven’t lived in Leeds very long and I’m hearing about new places to go all the time. One of the girls from the “Leeds Knitterati” knitting group that meets in Starbucks in Leeds had told me about Coldspring Mill – its the other side of Bradford and has …
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New Camera
18 February 2007
Read moreWe bought a new camera yesterday. Kevin has a good digital camera but its quite big and now quite old. He saw that Jessop’s was having a sale so we went and looked … we’ve now got a fujifilm finepix F650 [1]. Its quite small and quite powerful with …
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Crochet Slowpoke
16 February 2007
Read moreI saw these slowpoke patterns linked from somewhere else a while back and I just had to buy them. Well the first one is finished – he’s a bit plain (think that was the rather primary colour choices) but he’s done and I think he’s cute:
I pre-recorded …
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Email Outage
15 February 2007
Read moreLike the technical wizard that I am I’ve just spent 48 hours (almost) with all email to my lornajane.net domain getting lost in the ether somewhere. The story is one of those silly bureaucratic ones which I won’t repeat here because my hosting company, flump , have been …
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CafePress Order
14 February 2007
Read moreFollowing our PHPThrowdown experience I saw on their website that they have mugs on CafePress. For ages I have wanted the “code like a girl” mug from CafePress having read Kathy Sierra’s article of the same name.
Well the order arrived today: One PHP Throwdown 2007 mug and one …