Summer in Scotland

Summer in Scotland consists of:

rain (just drizzle if you’re lucky)
wind (as in: really windy!)

Tomorrow is July, which worries me slightly, as it means ’summer’ is now in full swing. I never look forward to the cold, dark months - but as of tomorrow, we’re in the second half of year and thus past the point [...]

We Lost

it’s fine, I don’t mind. We were shit!
/me goes off to play Zelda The Twilight Princess

My new car from Gretna Green

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I’ve now got my Honda Civic which I picked up from Gretna Green. I didn’t mind getting the train to Carlisle and then Gretna - I want to learn as much as possible about Scotland’s different areas. The train journey made me feel quite emotional - the views for the first part of [...]

TV is Broken

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All sorts of things break down here @ lenina’s at the moment: car, washing machine, and now my big 42″ TV. The TV hasn’t been working well for a while - basically it just won’t switch on properly (you have to try 100 times before it works).
This entire week, for instance, I haven’t [...]

Honda Civic 1.5 is mine

The Honda Civic 1.5, which I had failed to bid on last Sunday, is mine! The auction only had one bid at £745, and I wanted to sneak in a last-second bid at the time but messed up. Afterwards, I contacted the seller and let him know that I was really interested in the car [...]

Germany in the Final

As people will know by now (if they’re bothered about football..), Germany are in the final. Just a wee comment about the BBC reporting about the Germany-Turkey match - there’s an anti-German bias there, which annoys me:

Philipp Lahm’s last-minute winner sent Germany into the Euro 2008 final and sank a desperately unlucky Turkey.
Lahm stole in [...]

lenina on the Radio tomorrow

I will be radio interviewed tomorrow. w00t. It’s quite cool. I can’t tell you more about it I’m afraid. What I’m going to do though is stream it live and record it to my harddrive via mp3mymp3 (daft name). If I make a fool of myself (it’s live radio), I’m just gonna delete the file [...]

Kitchen Flooding (Again)

What was probably avoidable has happened again. Due to the absence of a tap for the fucking red hose (= exciting news reported two days ago), my kitchen flooded again today. Bad.
I get this call at work at around 4pm from the council, saying that my downstairs neighbour has gushes of water/waterfall-type coming into her [...]

Potentially bidding on Honda Civic (ends in 2 hours)

I’ve found a Honday Civic on ebay that I’m tempted to bid on. It’s quite cheap but looks in good nick, apart from a dent on one side and a hole in the bumper (but that kind of thing doesn’t put me off! I love my cars to be rough around the edges ).
Anyway, [...]

New Washing Machine has Only Got One Hose

My new washing machine, which was delivered today, only has one hose (blue) when the old one had two (blue and red). Apparently that’s because the modern ones only have one.
This however leaves me with a red hose that is disconnected from the washing machine, but not connected to anything else. I dare not disconnect [...]