Ramblings
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Investigating the damp
The builder has spent the day kangoing holes into walls and floors, looking for the source of the damp that is present in the party wall, and that destroyed the parquet floor that was underneath the engineered floor in the porch. Tomorrow’s project for me will be to buy a hose, hook it up to…
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Yep, it’s damp
The builder showed up bright and early this morning, and we had a chat about what had been found in the first day of demolition and poking. The engineered wood floor came up very easily, and a powerful damp pong reeked through the property once that was done (I can’t smell it, clogged nose). The…
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Trying to not fall off the ladder
Earlier this year, I purchased a house not far from where I currently rent. The mortgage is within a spitting distance of the rent I was paying (and less than the rent I would pay if I was a new renter to my apartment), the property is what you might refer to as charming, and…
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Back on the property ladder
After a few years of looking, and purchase that I pulled out of due to probate not clearing in time, I’ve managed to find a house I like (and that K likes). I don’t like the price too much, but I’ve not had to move far – my commute in the morning or evening is…
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Watching thousands of Euro go up in smoke
The locals in Germany seem very fond of fireworks. As 2019 was rung in, fireworks were going off across Höchst all through the hours leading up to midnight. From ~2345 until ~0045, I felt sorry for any dogs, or people who have PTSD that can be triggered by loud noises – it was an absolute…
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Indexing my books – part two
VBA is a horrible thing to work with; mostly because the development environment (if you can call it that) built in to Office 2013 stinks. You get lovely errors like “Access denied” when using the HTTP request component, or “-91”. So, with a lot of looking things up on StackOverflow and other sources, I’ve re-written…