I’ve just been to collect our second cat, Black Cat, who has been hit by a car and killed. Although Black Cat wasn’t strictly speaking our cat, we’ve come to love him – and especially his habit of climbing on our laps and cuddling us while purring like a Kawasaki.  He turned up one day [...]

Today I broke with my recent habit of spending the weekend slobbing around, and actually did something: a day trip to Shipley Glen. What a nice day it was too – a ride on the oldest extant tramway in the UK, a walk culminating in a Geocache find, a visit to a small wildlife centre, [...]

Davenport Lyons, the by-now infamous lawfirm situated, sadly, here in the UK, is continuing its campaign of sending threatening letters alleging possibly copyright infringing actions and demanding money.  You may remember a post I made in which I drafted a response asking to see the evidence the firm allegedly has under the auspices of the [...]

Still no progress on the roof, but I’m pleased to say that this Monday saw the friendly chaps from Leading Edge Joinery fitting my shiny new door.  A wonderful job they did too – they even transferred the old cat flap, and did such a good job cleaning it that I honestly thought they had [...]

Well, it’s now the 6th of September and my roof is still leaking. Considering that this is a problem I reported on the 18th of August, I’m ever-so-slightly incredulous – doubly so when you consider that Roofing Group UK’s website mentions “customer service” as a primary reason you should consider using their services. What a [...]

I rang Roofing Group UK again during my precious lunch hour, and got through to the same receptionist who once more told me “it’s on the board, and waiting for Stuart to get back from Spain.” I explained, for the third time, that this is unacceptable, and have been assured that what seems to be [...]