Dodgy Haircuts

I found this photo on my old schools website yesterday...and was quite horrified by the state of everyone's hair. Mine was definitely the worst of the lot, a shocking example of the 'pudding bowl' cut. Front row is all I'm going to say.

PicLens

Do yourself a favour and get your self over to PicLens here and download their plugin for your browser. Then go to google image search or deviantart or whatever and click the little arrow that now appears over the images in your search results. Bleedin Brilliant it is. Now supports YouTube !

Rewards

So today, after a lot of swearing, smashed knuckles, and a certain amount of banging about, I managed to sort the drains out. Now when I empty the kitchen sink, a get a little whirlpool in the middle, just like you are supposed to.

As a reward for myself, I hung up these rather nifty mirrors, which was quite an achievement considering they are a whopping 7 feet by 5 feet each, and weigh a bloody ton.

As a further reward for hanging up the mirrors, I am going to download the last 2 episodes of Lost season 4, and watch them back to back with a lager or two.

Dankness

The last 24 hours have not been good. it all started to go wrong when the drain blocked somewhere between the washing machine and the sewer. This happened whilst both the dishwasher and the washing machine were emptying themselves, resulting in an enormous flood of foul smelling water behind all the kitchen units. I poked one of those spring steel snake things down the pipe to try and unblock it, and lost the snake when it snapped in half somewhere in the pipework. So I cut the pipe in half and discovered that the snake had gone the other way and still couldn't be retrieved. Went to B&Q to buy replacement pipe and fittings, and discovered that I had bought the wrong size when I got home. 40mm instead of 43mm. The house is a shocking mess, dirty plates, wet laundry, emptied kitchen units, an unpleasant smell, and a faint sound of dripping water. Not good. Went to bed and slept for about 2 hours. Got up at 4.30 in the morning because I was getting bored of lying in bed wide awake. The house stinks. Couldn't find a clean coffee cup, and couldn't wash one up. Today I have to sort this all out, and I am not looking forward to crawling around under wet kitchen units.

At least the kids are back to school today, and I actually heard the dawn chorus this morning which was kind of nice.