Swing hammer swing!*

Sick of me and my new doors yet? Yeh, me too. And although there are still three more to go up, me and Ms Fix-It kind of silently acknowledged that it was time to move onto something new. The doors I can work on myself, methinks anyway. At least I know Ms Fix-It is merely [...]

She came, she saw, she conquered the baking

Progress on DIY this week: nil Progress on Christmas shopping: huge Major milestone: baking Or, rather, baking successfully. Here is the product of my toil, and I am proud, so proud. It’s Scottish shortbread. It’s pretty easy: flour, cornflour, sugar, butter. You mix it all together, knead, roll, cut and bake. Foolproof, you might say. [...]

Blood and burbs and Bailey’s

Behold! The fruits of our labor today, me and Ms Fix-It. To hell with putting up doors! we shouted. Sod the silly set squares and hammer and chisel. Let’s get pissed instead. Actually, although these look like two wine corks, they are what comes out when you drill a small hole in the side of a [...]

Sorted

It’s no good. Despite his little lifetime of anti-gun messages, our refusal to buy him a toy gun, and my blatant sneers at anything to do with ammunition, the military, rifles, even BB guns, Munchkin announced the other day: “I’m going to be an army when I grow up.” Not just a soldier, mind you, a whole [...]

The big reveal

Done. In what must surely qualify as the longest DIY project in history, the tin ceiling has gone from this ……           ………………to this. Yes, for five long years, and several months, we lived with that white expanse of ceiling, the ugly recessed lights, and the gap above the cabinets. Now, [...]