Badger Towers

Wed 12th May

Virgin came to install the broadband on Monday. Talk about ultra-efficient. It was fixed up, drilled, fitted and working in about an hour.  We tested it by unplugging the boiler from its extension lead daisy-chain.  Now you can have hot water or Internet in our house, but not at the same time.  So our plan to work from home at speeds faster than a 3G trickle seemed to be all go, until we discovered they have a shortage of wifi routers and would send one later.  Undeterred, Mrsbadger strung a 10m ethernet cable through the house at roughly garotting level.  It reaches the chair, but not the desk.  All my coupling connectors are packed deep in endless boxes marked “Misc Computer Stuff”.

Meanwhile, our structural engineer (a nice Chinese chap with a small business in Bristol) specced a steel for our kitchen and sent us unfathomable plans in PDF, which we just gave to the builder.  He’s ordered us a steel for £430 +VAT.  It had the added complication of having to support the puny joists, a slate floor and a roll-top cast-iron bath full of water (and a person).

We ordered a back door. French doors made in Yorkshire from Scandinavian timber, installed by an Albanian.

The 3rd bedroom was in a sorry state, so we had it skimmed. What a transformation.  Anton & his missus plastered and skimmed the place in a day and a bit to a really good finish, and tidied up afterwards. He keeps calling me Benny. I kind of like it. Mister Benny.

Oh and we have some £9 curtains from Habitat over our windows, so we don’t get woken up at 5am. Actually we do still get woken up when Steev the cat decides to do a log and not bury it properly.

Life is interesting living in one room, but we really need somewhere to sit soon.