Disarrayed Note

Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine is terrifying, I admire the bravery and resolve which is being reported of everyday Ukrainians. If you're looking for ways to show your support I noticed the Ukrainian Embassy to the UK is fundraising, also check out withukraine.org.

Okay, and now for a step change into usual ramblings. I missed one so here's a bumper update of nonsense. Lucky you, huh?

• 00:00, olive juice, mould, mysterious crawlers and their eggs. Without further comment.
• Bleach and fire. Fire and bleach.
• We moved house! As always, one more box would have been really helpful. The thought of unpacking at the other end was daunting. When did we get so much stuff? We considered doing a lucky dip box sale, £50 a box, to get rid of it all.
• We started packing meticulously but half way through systems broke down and the blender got split across 3 boxes. That would have been fun for the lucky dip.
• Whilst unpacking a mattress, labelled as a 2 man job, R to me: “I’m about half a man and you’re about 3/4 of a man”. I'll take that as a compliment.
• The coaxial cable into the living room is connected to a satellite rather than an arial. Apparently our TV has partial support for satellite. We can get BBC 1 London, BBC 2, ITV, and Channel 4 but each is listed about 8 times, and only 1 works, and in between is a sprinkling of porn channels – which also don't work.
• We refuse to get a Freesat receiver because we will not become a dual remote household.
• This means I've been watching men's curling. It wasn't as exciting as bowls can apparently be.
• Remember the storms? Yeah those were bad. Our new home didn't blow away but a massive plank of wood crashed from our neighbour's scaffolding. Gotta get on setting up life insurance.
• Hello Capt. Moody here - Sainsbury's uses my proper title for deliveries, and I expect you to too.
• Lacking furniture to unpack into I've been shuffling piles of objects around the room until their feng shui is just right.
• Hey Siri, remind me in 1 years time to sell, donate, bin, or use any remaining crap stashed in the eaves.
• We paid to get the locks changed which I expected to feel like a sensible waste of money, and nothing more, but actually it felt like a delightful statement of security. How many minutes can one stare at a lock with delight? Many. This was only slightly tinged by my jealousy that Matt's door is a much nicer door.
• Checkout Mel's excellent weeknote.
• An Openreach Engineer went up a phone line pole to fix our internet in quite gusty weather. I'm grateful no-one fell to their death such that I can get a better internet connection – frankly, a 5G tether was surprisingly good.
• Our Openreach engineer has a leaky bay window and is dealing with bug infested floorboards. I was no help having solved the leaky bay window in our last rental by moving out. Can't play that card again for a while.
• Work is difficult at the moment. Positive news was quickly followed by very not positive news. Exciting opportunity is the mantra 🙃
• omg so tired of diy and we haven't achieved anything yet except making things worse (in some cases a necessary step, in some cases less so). Can't wait to progress and buy a bed frame.
• Walking Dead survivors are better groomed than I am right now.
• wd-40 anti-friction dry ptfe lubricant is my new favourite thing – lubing everything up in here
• Green porridge, hemp, meh. Without further comment.
• That's the bullet I'm ending on.
• No that was.
• Wait, this is.