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I got a Cubo sideboard from Another Brand, made to custom dimensions and with a non-standard finish, for a price that was cheaper than a lot of other options* I was considering.

*other option 1 being a muuto enfold tall, with a provided width of 94.5cm. When it turned up at 106cm and definitely didn't fit in the alcove there were many annoyed people right up the email chain back to the supplier. Dimensions on the web are still incorrect.

the @6pt approved sock was the maap fat stripe sock. The ridge supply was for those who prefer more pronounced matchy matching.

Lighting over the table, narrow angle-able floor lamp alongside the piano would be choice (I would say lamp on top but the books scupper that). I quite like playing in a gloomy room but still need to see the notes because nothing sticks in my brain any more.

You really need to work on your posture.

The heart wants what the heart wants.

Wheels are beginning to turn on buying a new place. It's larger than the last place and the floor plan doesn't make any sense so it's going to need some smashy smashy and a bit of addy addy. I've done a pretty comprehensive ~scale drawing first pass in Illustrator to reassure myself that we're not making a huge mistake in terms of potential, but the more I look at it the more I think (well, know) we're making a huge mistake in terms of budget. Ah well, love a bit of adventure and a decade of living in squalor followed by a decade of poverty.

can't

disappointingly unambitious.

BIG! Amazing news.

Good farm shop at Winsley too (Hartley Farm shop)

There's the Collier's Way – no idea on the quality of it, but it goes past our future front door and is something I'm looking to explore once we get there. Based on past experience of NCN routes it's likely impassable at all times of the year bar peak-heatwave.

BoA was on our secondary list along with other more-immediate Bath-bits (Combe Down) but we weren't as enamoured with it. Went to view a hilarious cottage in Conkwell with a downstairs ceiling so low I couldn't stand up straight (not that I do that anyway).

We've spent a fair bit of time in Frome over the last few years (2020 excluded) and at least some of it has been dry, so I can say with limited experience that it does get there eventually. Car's always filthy by the time we come home though, no matter the season.

This talk of totally reasonable provincial house-sorting costs is warming my heart. more of it please.

The chippy on King St may well be exactly the same, the Lamb and Fountain definitely is.
Just got to hope we actually manage to buy the place now.

We didn’t really ‘get’ Bruton. There’s nothing there apart from closed-down pubs and traffic, and we’ve too much to do for long slow lunches at the chapel.

frome is really cool too when I went down there

🤞

Off to Somerset 🤞small town, country-adjacent vibes. Not much further from Bath than we are from central London now, but hopefully with fewer street corner mattresses and a bit more mud and far-reaching views. It’s looking like we might get a garage and a sensible home office in the deal too.

Offer accepted, it begins.

shame I haven't bought anywhere with a garage yet :(

Not buying anything and putting the money in a pot? They’ll get cheaper while you step your way up too!

I have said before - Ferrari FF. v12 AND shooting brake. Double dammit win.

I never trust myself to get the details right. Which is stupid I know. Next time.

The real shitter is the percentage on top they charge for business card transactions vs paying with a personal debit card.

Sign in to tax portal. View VAT account. Check what you owe. Pay now. Debit card. Enter details.

That’s the flow I followed to pay mine while writing this very post, seemed pretty sensible to me.

It’s all gone to shit.

Currently living in Devon with my turbo trainer in a garage in south east London and my bikes in storage who-knows-where. No zwift for me for a while :)

My bathroom is the same size, maybe smaller. I went with option one.

If you're looking to buy an Apple product, Apple is involved. If you're looking to buy a decent USB cable there is no need to involve Amazon.

Always nice to have an excuse for a good Flensted