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kingandySo today I are been mostly working, which means it is probably for the best that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stsquad didn't turn up expecting to go to B&Q.
Unless I'm very much mistaken this means Alex gets to keep his 100% record in not-turning-up-to-decorate-the-big-spare-room. I wouldn't mind so much (I am not one to whinge about the sudden lack of having to do physical labour, and anyway I had all this work to do), but he doesn't even tell me - not even when I've gone out of my way to be home, turning down social engagements[1] and travelling across the country etc.
Plus, of course, the weekend after nextanne_l_davies will be turning up, expecting somewhere to hang her hat[2]. Between us, myself and Alex have about three spare evenings between now and then in which to decorate the room, move my stuff into there, and arrange some manner of bed for the newbie[3]. And we don't even have materials for decorating, hence the trip to B&Q.
It's looking very much as though one of us is going to be sleeping in a room with bare walls.
[1] In the pub, mostly. But still.
[2] Metaphorical.
[3] Meant in the most immediate sense, if we include past tenure Anne probably has seniority over me.
stsquad didn't turn up expecting to go to B&Q.Unless I'm very much mistaken this means Alex gets to keep his 100% record in not-turning-up-to-decorate-the-big-spare-room. I wouldn't mind so much (I am not one to whinge about the sudden lack of having to do physical labour, and anyway I had all this work to do), but he doesn't even tell me - not even when I've gone out of my way to be home, turning down social engagements[1] and travelling across the country etc.
Plus, of course, the weekend after next
anne_l_davies will be turning up, expecting somewhere to hang her hat[2]. Between us, myself and Alex have about three spare evenings between now and then in which to decorate the room, move my stuff into there, and arrange some manner of bed for the newbie[3]. And we don't even have materials for decorating, hence the trip to B&Q.It's looking very much as though one of us is going to be sleeping in a room with bare walls.
[1] In the pub, mostly. But still.
[2] Metaphorical.
[3] Meant in the most immediate sense, if we include past tenure Anne probably has seniority over me.
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Date: 2005-09-04 06:32 pm (UTC)She has lots of hats.
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Date: 2005-09-04 08:50 pm (UTC)Well I was still meaning it in the metaphorical sense, she may not have all her hats with her and anyway there would be nowhere to hang them.
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Date: 2005-09-05 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-05 11:50 am (UTC)That would be two hats mad.
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Date: 2005-09-05 12:52 pm (UTC)And I'm turning up on Thursday the 22nd. Which gives you a whole extra three days to play with. Or something...
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Date: 2005-09-05 02:02 pm (UTC)However its not as though you can't go go to B&Q yourself, being as you have a car and you are the one picking the wallpaper. The only actual activity that will require both of us is putting up the wall paper itself.
In the meantime I should get the plastering done tonight/tomorrow after I've cleared up all the old wallpaper.
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Date: 2005-09-05 02:57 pm (UTC)Don't know where B&Q is, and anyway it's your house, you're buying the wallpaper. :p You can see my point, though - if I'd started without you every time you'd said you'd be there to help and weren't, I'd have decorated your spare room all by myself by now. It's not the lack of help - it's the constant disregard for commitments.
But this is probably not the place to have a domestic. As I say, I wasn't exactly gutted as it meant I was able to put a good 10 hours in on fixing the website.
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Date: 2005-09-05 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-05 03:10 pm (UTC)anywhere!
Date: 2005-09-05 04:34 pm (UTC)OK, if it's looking drastic then I have about a day and a half to help you when I move in. It would be best to have at least bought the paper by then.
I don't care who buys the paper.
And when I say 'help' I largely mean 'supervise'. Although I can possibly wield a paste brush.
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Date: 2005-09-05 05:51 pm (UTC)I should get the prepping done in the next two days. However I've never papered before so there could be an issue of learning the trade.
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Date: 2005-09-05 05:53 pm (UTC)http://local.google.co.uk/local?hl=en&lr=&q=B+and+Q&near=M32&btnG=Search&sc=1&rl=1
With the directions being a lot clearer:
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?spn=0.035439,0.056425&saddr=M32+8dp&daddr=M41+7LG&hl=en
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Date: 2005-09-06 07:38 am (UTC)Re: learning the trade
Date: 2005-09-06 07:40 am (UTC)Handy hints!
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Date: 2005-09-06 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-06 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-06 09:37 am (UTC)