Happy 2009! It’s been a while.
I realise I don’t blog here very often. Sometimes I wish I still had a secret, anonymous blog where I could actually say all the stuff I contemplate saying on here. The problem with that is there’s always someone who’ll work it out and ‘out’ me, and while I’m not [...]

I’ve just experienced my first real flat-related emergency. The radiator leaked. All over the living room carpet. This was a disaster waiting to happen, as there’d apparently been a tiny leak to the flat below for a while, but my plumber and the downstairs landlord hadn’t been able to communicate efficiently enough to get it [...]