Domestic triumph

Today's domestic triumphs:

Bought clothes dryer.
Worked out how washing machine works. (Tip: works better when the door is properly closed. You're welcome.)
Found 3G inside - balancing on the corner of the coffee table. Bound to not work tomorrow, but for this second, I have the Glowing Blue Light of Communication beaming at me.

Domestic set-back:

Freeview box doesn't fit TV ariel cable. Suspect this means TV ariel cable might actually be satelite cable. Which means freeview box might not work with it, even if I can find a way to make it fit. Further suspect that freeview box is non-refundable, because shop is owned by capitalist bastards who want to make money. Suggestions as to ways forward gratefully received...

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Cleaning, boring domesticity

I'm cleaning my house again today, because the insurance man might be coming over. It's not August anymore, you see, so everyone's started work again. On the other hand, he might just approve it over the phone, and then the landlady never needs to see my obvious domestic failure. Best to assume he'll want to come and visit, since the rain has stopped...

I'm feeling a bit less crap this morning, though I have horrible hiccups, so I shall get up and be domestic before energy leaves me. I was going to have a hair cut today, but now I need to be in for the insurance man in case he wants to come round, so I'll hair cut another day. Maybe Monday.

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In which I am domestic.

Domestic Me made lamb chops with rosemary roasted potatoes and aubergine last night. It was yummy.

Domestic Me has also hoovered and taken out the rubbish and the recycling, and is getting up the courage to clean the kitchen.

Domestic Me is deeply irritating, since she hides and is lazy, except for brief periods of time when she just. won't. stop. housework.

Normal Me is off to do yoga and play with metal. I'm making an 11-column steel bracelet for a customer - work in progress photos are here, if you're bored.

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Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies. Don't they look nice?

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Domestic me!

I am the most domestic I have ever been before (although, I realise, that's not saying much...) That said, I have succeeded in making my trousers of a wearable length, and both legs are (more or less) the same length all the way around and (more or less) the same length as each other. I think that's pretty good, considering as how I can't tell a straight line if it's drawn for me, I don't have any pins and I don't have a mirror to tell what length they ought to be for the initial folding up bit.

Unfortunately, said white trousers seem to have a stain from the washing machine. Clearly I am not domestic goddess enough to know that washing dirty things together means that some of the dirt might transfer from one clothes to another. They may now be ruined, despite my heroic attempts to make them wearable.

It's amazing the things you will do to avoid essay writing, isn't it?

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Breakfast

Bored of washing up, essay writing (6k done) and everything. Waiting for laundry to finish, so I can go and get food for tonight - aren't I just the domestic goddess? I'm even going to buy a sewing kit and try making my trousers a sensible length for a short person like me. How wrong can it go?

Today's sunshine photo is breakfast:

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