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The Day that was Big

by birdsong @ Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 - 04:10:48 pm

Wrote this yesterday but it refused to post...???

One of Those Days. We can laugh about it already, such was the ridiculousness. Is that a word?

Now there's an idea. two ideas in fact.
A dictionary in reverse.
I've got a definition, now how do I find a word for it?
I need a word to describe, for instance, an alphabetical list of words and their associated meanings...

Second idea - is it possible using the technology of the world wide web to search using pictures??
Here's a butterfly I saw today - what is it?
Here's an actress I saw in a film - who is she? etc

That's what having Kink here does for my head. Flippity flop. Trains of thought get derailed very quickly.

First off this morning we had a man in to move a radiator in F and E's bedroom, and check out the lighting that keeps blowing bulbs in the loft. £200 later he has done both jobs very well, but left me wondering what state the rest of the conversion is in after describing the wiring circuit to the lights as 'illegal and potentially dangerous'. Great.
We have to get some different lights immediately that can be used and changed safely without an earth cable.
Is that normal, to have no earth cable in lighting circuits?
While this is all going on, furniture pushed into the middle of two rooms etc, and dust and plaster everywhere, the car is in the garage. Dad has spectacularly failed to get a replacement part for the windscreen linkage assembly that has broken. We've had a week with no wiper. Or rain.
Seems like an easy job to get the ball joint or part of the arm but no - apparently we had to buy the whole assembly. Dad was told this by garages, dealers and breakers yards. Andy at the garage we use explained the same thing. We've used him and his dad for years. good men. Honest business.
But the part still cost £199 and then took four hours to fit. Bits and bobs, VAT etc. No change from £300.

Meanwhile, Noonah is busy emptying the kitchen cupboards and dropped a china mixing bowl on her foot.
Broken toe? Hobbling around with a nice big purple bruise.

Work has been shit too. Far far too much going on. Overloading the stress levels.

Caretaking at the church this weekend. A job I don't enjoy.

And tomorrow night we are off out for a friend's 30th birthday meal with a group of people we don't otherwise know. Strangely looking forward to it...

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