The House Husband

with occasional entries by The Dean

Constant rain

I’m fairly certain that this has been one of the worst Sunday’s we’ve ever spent in the UK. I admit, that could be a slight exaggeration if I include the Christmas we went to the Lakes, but even so, it was pretty dire.

It was like all the rain we’ve already had decided to double up and fall in one day. As a consequence, we didn’t leave the house. Of course I went shopping in the morning (and managed to get soaked) but that was it for me and Mirinda stayed inside.

I find that days like this are good times to perform a bit of essential housekeeping on the website – clearing out old files, fixing up photo albums that no longer work. While there’s no obvious evidence of my having done anything useful, at least I know the site is working a little bit better.

As I go through the many pages, I often wonder whether I should change it all. It does occur to me that I’m possibly one of the only people who actually look back over old photos and journals so, for that reason alone, perhaps I should make it what I want.

Perhaps, once all the travel journals are transferred to the blog, I will make wholesale changes, just to spruce it up. Of course, this can only be accomplished when the weather is rubbish and I have nothing else to do, given the size of our website.

In the meantime, I just look out the back window and thank Dave we now have a path. I reminded Mirinda how awful the back garden would be if not for the path. We may dither over other changes to our house but this one has proven a boom.

PS: The reason I might not be able to make the first FATN committee meeting (as I mentioned yesterday) is because I’m expecting a delivery on Tuesday and have no idea when it’s due.

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Website updates

Today I spent a lot of time doing housework, drying the poodle’s paws off every time they came back inside, doing uni work and generally doing WORK so, in the evening, I decided to relax a bit by updating the website.

And I’ve been quite busy. There’s a new photo album, full of old family photos (try looking in the ’0000′ photo album). I have updated the pages to include 2010 (though the present links only go to existing pages because we’ve not been anywhere yet!). I have transcribed a few more war memorials and added an email contact. I have tried (unsuccessfully, three times) to convert a video of a Cambridge University lecture by Mary Beard so I could watch it on the iTouch. This takes so long, it’s infuriating when it doesn’t work. I blame the iTouch, personally.

And now I’m exhausted and need to go to bed.

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