Meanwhile, with my other hand...
I did manage to make a start on painting the kitchen this week, probably a bit sooner than perhaps I should given the cold, but friends are staying this weekend, and that was my deadline for getting it done. And dammit it’s very nearly done. All that’s left is an annoying bit of wall, but this will involve standing on a chair and tap-dancing and juggling plates and that kind of thing. The colour is ‘frosted steel’, which we inadvertently picked while looking for a colour to ‘make the room feel warmer’. It does look nice, though. I also did heroic things like empty bookcases and drag them downstairs and hoover walls.
The room adjacent to the kitchen looks less good, however: it’s now piled up with all the crap that’s been in the hanging around for ages in the back. But now it’s rationalized crap. This is an important distinction. Control has been exercised over the crap.
On which subject, wasn’t Torchwood alarmingly good this week? ( Spoilers up to and including this week’s BBC 3 episode, ‘Dead Man Walking’ )
I decided I would read Jared Diamond’s Collapse in the end, and I’m glad I did because it’s fascinating if intensely depressing. Those poor bloody and bloody-minded Greenland Norse have been plaguing my thoughts all week, even more than the Easter Islanders. And this despite Diamond’s valiant efforts throughout to go, “No no no! It’s all fine! We can learn from all this and do something about our own situation!” The bio on the dust jacket tells me Diamond started as a physiologist and is now Professor of Geography at UCLA. I like geographers, they are turning out to be a Sekrit Kabal of the Kool. Anyway, thank you to those of you who said this was worth reading, because you were right.
The room adjacent to the kitchen looks less good, however: it’s now piled up with all the crap that’s been in the hanging around for ages in the back. But now it’s rationalized crap. This is an important distinction. Control has been exercised over the crap.
On which subject, wasn’t Torchwood alarmingly good this week? ( Spoilers up to and including this week’s BBC 3 episode, ‘Dead Man Walking’ )
I decided I would read Jared Diamond’s Collapse in the end, and I’m glad I did because it’s fascinating if intensely depressing. Those poor bloody and bloody-minded Greenland Norse have been plaguing my thoughts all week, even more than the Easter Islanders. And this despite Diamond’s valiant efforts throughout to go, “No no no! It’s all fine! We can learn from all this and do something about our own situation!” The bio on the dust jacket tells me Diamond started as a physiologist and is now Professor of Geography at UCLA. I like geographers, they are turning out to be a Sekrit Kabal of the Kool. Anyway, thank you to those of you who said this was worth reading, because you were right.