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A photo of our old pergola. It's done in timber with white paint over it, and the roofing is polycarbonate. There's a vertical post in the middle of the longest span and the whole thing looks a bit shit.

A another photo taken from underneath the pergola looking out. You can see that the wood isn't very good quality and is rotting in places and the roofing has dust and mud on the top of it. It too looks awful.

A photo of the new pergola. It's done in white metal and looks clean and airy and SOLID. There's no middle vertical post for the longest span and it looks much more open now.

A photo taken from underneath the new pergola. The roofing is primarily white metal and there's two translucent fibreglass panels that provide a wonderfully soft and diffuse light.

New pergola is done! It looks SO much nicer, and it's much brighter underneath than I was expecting giving it's only got two light panels. I'm very excited about it not getting to be a gajillion degrees underneath it on sunny days, too.

(Ignore the piles of dirt at the left and the lights hanging from their cables... the former we need to dump out at the back of the yard, and the latter we need to call the electrician in for because the new pergola needed to get fastened to that panel of wood that the lights were previously on.)

Posted on 15 March 2022, 13:22

A photo looking up over the hedge the next to our house, with a street light and some trees also visible, all silhouetted again the pre-sunrise sky. There's a hint of orange in the sky at the very bottom.

Man, it's been a while since I've been up before sunrise. I think the last time was when we went to New Zealand RIGHT before COVID hit in February of 2020.

We're getting our pergola redone (yes, again), this time by someone competent. Had someone in to quote just for getting it fixed, and so much had been done wrong that it made more sense to rip the whole thing down and start it over again in metal rather than timber.

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Posted on 14 March 2022, 6:53

A photo of a bunch of round cookies sitting on two cooling racks. They're golden brown and each one has four chunks of dark chocolate on the top.

Made excellent use of my day off and made a batch of rosemary chocolate chunk cookies. 👌🏻

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Posted on 11 March 2022, 15:50

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds. The art on it is primarily blues and feels like a sea cavern. It's covered in hexagons and there's two sets of miniatures facing each other in various positions: Lady Harrow's Mournflight, a set of four spooky spirits all flowing and painted in a sickly pale green, and Hrothgorn's Mantrappers, a huge ogre with a massive crossbow alongside a sabretooth tiger and three little goblin-looking creatures. There's cards and dice around the board.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for a cheeky mid-week game of Warhammer Underworlds. Despite never having played and being down to one fighter at the end, he won 14 to 11! (Partially my fault, I got a bit greedy.)

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Posted on 9 March 2022, 23:30

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side on a green blanket on the floor, looking like he's staring off into the middle distance.

The same dog on the same blanket, but this time he's lying upside down.

Current Beanie status

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Posted on 8 March 2022, 11:02

A photo of eight Tupperware containers sitting on a bench. They're all filled with half rice and half tomato-based chicken curry with carrots and beans in it.

I made a batch of chicken curry to have for lunches during the week.

Didn't realise quite how much it'd make. 😳

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Posted on 6 March 2022, 14:24

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying curled up on a binder that's open on the floor.

Beanie is channeling his inner cat. (Kristina was in the middle of doing some stretches from the binder he's made himself comfortable on.)

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Posted on 2 March 2022, 19:01

A photo of me, a white man with blue eyes and a, uh, let's call it a "large" forehead, with a very fluffy and scruffy-looking full red beard and brown hair that's probably about a centimetre or so long.

Me again, but with an extremely neatly trimmed haircut and beard, done with #2 hair clippers.

Oh my goodness that was a much-needed head shave.

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 21:32

A photo of a big boxy stompy green Chaos Dreadnaught being overrun by eight purple, four-armed Alien-esque Genestealers.

My Dreadnaught got, uh, slightly swarmed. (We lost due to not paying enough attention to objectives, though we also didn't actually finish all the turns before my teammate had to get back home so technically it could have gone either way.)

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:47

A photo of a table with lots of home-made terrain on it, all either rocky or scrap-looking metal constructs. On this side are Chaos Space Marines, painted in green, next to regular Space Marines which are shamefully unpainted (and also held together with Blu-tac). On the other are Tyranids and Necrons.

Look out, we're playing Warhammer 40,000! Pretty sure this is the first time in seven years...

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:15