Further Bits And Bobs

[liadnan]

I'm feeling exhausted at the moment. As though I were recuperating from a serious illness or something. I made an executive decision that it would be demonstrably negligent for me to do any serious work today as a result, and instead arsed around and started re-reading Ilium (Ritu, remind me to come back to that comments thread).

Sitting in a café later on, the peace was disrupted by a woman braying from the other side of the room..

..well, the term "blog is metaphysical really. Because it can go either way, and be one thing or the other.

I suppose she may have had a serious point, but I stabbed her to death with my fork, so we'll never know. There isn't a jury in the land that would convict me.

Private Eye on Daily Mail headlines.. "Affordable Homes Will Lead to Collapse in House Prices", and "Does Sudoku Give You Cancer? (cont. p.94). I defy anyone to do better.

Right. Back to seeing just how far over-budget you can go on a Grand Design of a ruined church in County Mayo. Thought McLoud was looking particularly nervous when looking at that tower...

Comments

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Wait, which one is Private Eye and which one the Daily Mail. I'm confused.

[liadnan]

They're both Private Eye spoofs.

Mrs is getting nervous already about how small the rooms are... but actually it looks pretty good to me. I want McLoud to do a series of Grand Disasters - the ones that went utterly pear-shaped.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

That'll learn me for replying too quickly.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

Balls. Was that a new GD?

[liadnan]

Not sure. I haven't seen this one but I had seen last weeks, I'm sure. It's only half way through.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Nah this one is a repeat.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

There's been far, far too many of those in this series. Not even revisited where it wasn't properly finished first time, just "lets go back and have another look".

[liadnan]

Signs of an imminent recession - less loonies spending money on expensive home development.

No Simon, I don't think you're a loonie...

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Agreed, though I do have a vague recollection of reading something about them having to drop at least one project this series as they were abusing the format or it just didn't work or something. So if they are contracted to X number of shows they have to do something.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

That might explain why they reran the Huff Haus one last week - just a straigh repeat, without even an extra few minutes tagged on the end.

[ksta.livejournal.com]

i took my sore throat as indicator that today I needed to sit around in the sun. Being unemployed has a few benefits after all.

[liadnan]

There was that. Did the sun make the throat better though?

[ksta.livejournal.com]

it felt great. throat is a bit better than yesteredy, but i think that's only cos the cold itself is getting worse.

[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Ilium the Iliad-bsed sci-fi thing? Dan.. Simmons? Read it, was ambivalent. Also spent today conscientiously not working. I think it's a duty.

[liadnan]

That's the one. Two-partner, and no conclusions, just loose ends. Second half (Olympos) out soon.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the conversion in the end? Not sure about the ubiquitous pine effect.

[liadnan]

I really liked it to be honest. The wood will dull quite quickly. And who wouldn't kill for those views. Good work from a restoration point of view too.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Yes, the builder was an absolute star, they really struck lucky with him, and I loved the window seats full of cushions. It must be amazing to achieve something so magnificent from such a frail shell.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Will do.

But when should I do so? :)

[fi.livejournal.com]

Glad to see pretentiousness is alive and well in London cafés... ;-)

[liadnan]

Some things will never change.

[booklectica]

I hadn't heard of Grand Design till babysimon recommended it to me last week. Have now set up TiVo. Mmm, houses. Or ruined churches, as the case may be. We nearly bought a converted chapel in Crantock once, but it turned out to have dry rot and wet rot and everything.

[liadnan]

Heavens, you are behind...
I've been an addict since the start. One day I will do this.

[babysimon]

Err, I think last night was the last of the series. I think that's what they said, anyway.

Damn, I'm missing web access to my mythbox now.

We nearly bought a converted chapel in Crantock once

When?

[booklectica]

TiVo believes there are more coming up - could be repeats of course.

Converted chapel buying - when I say we I mean my parents. I was 14 or so. I may have mentioned that I spent a lot of my teenage years looking at potential houses with my parents, as we kept moving, and we'd always fall in love with picturesque cottages and then end up back in the same estate. Which is a lovely estate by the beach and the river, but it did leave me a bit wistful for old houses.

The real reason this kept happening was that cottages tend to be in villages, and my mum can't drive, so she didn't really want to live anywhere with only one bus a week.