📚 The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

am fucked…




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Nice job. You forgot the carpet though :wink:

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Oak Parquet sir… starting tomorrow subject to vaccine bed ridden day of slobbery

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is that your new upgraded woodshed?

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Alas… feeling fine… better get on with it…

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Well its been a tough day… felt fine first thing, then felt grim from about 10 through to 3pm so went back to bed with a load of paracetamol and water… got up later and made a start, but slow work given 200 year old floor is a bit uneven and only so much adjustment possible with world stickiest sticking gluey sticky thing…

Tomorrow us another day so time for booze

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Can I ask what the cables are for coming out of the middle of the floor?

This is in the Study, so i will have double power socket and cat 6. in floor under where desk will be so can charge laptop and use a hard wire internet access for when wifi is not not great

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YoungAdults #1 & #2 have solved that problem by running cables from the router to their bedrooms on the other side of the house using rolls and rolls of masking tape to minimize trip-hazards :roll_eyes:

Note to self: Sort out moving the router…

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Boys, boys, they may be expensive but mesh networks are the way to go. I’ve got 3 Deco M4s in my place and I don’t have bad WiFi no more…

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Its for when the bastard IT folks go remote when shitty wifi drivers on work laptop get fucked… we also have 2ft thick stone walls so even thigh router is downstairs… make wifi a twat

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Yo no hablo español

No hablo IT wankerz

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I cannot believe MoT is doing DIY with only Paracetamol.
I’m on alternate days of Cataflam, Olfen & Encorton.
Plus Lagaflex, Mydocalm or some local muscle relaxant.
And Vodka obv

No.
Not all at once. Different mix for knees or back or shoulders obv

The road trip plan inches forwards.
The new EU APP means it is technically possible barring rule changes in Germany, Belgium & France.

The cost is similar to Ryanair with a suitcase plus a rental car.

Just need Grant Schnapps to not be a dick again before early July.
And obv finding new plumbtrician after we found the 1st one had hung himself after a week battling our walls…

Long may this continue. It’s the source of most of my income. Keep IT illiterate, managers!

Finished my lockdown projects/project management jobs

Custom shutters installed in the living room and the Elvis installed by me using wall anchors and everything:

Bathroom redone - before:



Bathroom redone - after:





Kitchen splash done and the 4 new Philippe Starck ghost chairs:

Excitingly it’s now almost ready to sell (depending on what happens with planning permission for a roof terrace) in preparation for a move from our Brixton 1 bed flat to a real house in Hackney/Walthamstow :house_with_garden:

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Ah.
Hanging toilets.
:scream::scream::scream::scream::scream::scream:

Finding one with the right curvature of bowl & neck to cope with a standard daily dump & wipe has been a nightmare.
Then after we hacked the tiles & concrete off the walls we found this exactly where we need to put the frame

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