My House is a Wasp Condom
Category: Homeownership
The wasp nest is ejaculating its little emissaries, and my house is one big latex contraceptive.
Posted by Martin R at 2:41 PM • 9 Comments •
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Homeownership:
Wasp Nest
Category: Homeownership
Dear Reader, if you are a wasp, do not attempt to nest in my house. You will only Release the Fucking Fury, said with a bad Swedish accent. I will plug your nest's entries and vacuum your workers as...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Bookshelves
Category: Books
I'm now in that state of summer leisure mixed with the responsibility of providing entertainment for the kids that causes a man to forget what day it is of the week. And so a week's fun is no longer...
Posted by Friendly Scibling at 4:26 PM • 9 Comments •
Unforeseen Pleasures of Boat Hill
Category: Homeownership
Moving into a house has conferred a number of unforeseen advantages. The first one I discovered was that I now have a continuing relationship with the sky again, something I really only had before during my scant two years...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
What's The Financial Crisis Got To Do With Me?
Category: Homeownership
The only effect of the financial crisis on my life that I am aware of is that our mortgage is absurdly cheap.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Air Source Heat Pump
Category: Tech
An air source heat pump makes your house into a fridge turned inside out.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Walls Impede Wifi
Category: Tech
The bandwidth of a wifi connection is extremely sensitive to obstacles.
Posted by Martin R at 9:03 AM • 5 Comments •
Finally On-Line Again
Category: Homeownership
After a bit less than a month's wait our new house is finally on-line! The winter of our off-line discontent dissolvèd made glorious broadband summer. So far only at 11 Mbps when we were promised at least 12, but the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Our Strange Entrances
Category: Homeownership
The houses in our new neighbourhood are clones of one basic design: an L-shaped single-story structure with a fenced yard inside the angle of the L. The main entrance (1) is on one of the L's outer long walls. The...
Posted by Martin R at 8:30 AM • 4 Comments •
Aard's Second Blogiversary
Category: Blogging
I'm still having fun and hope you are too!
Posted by Martin R at 10:42 AM • 6 Comments •
Scavenging Furniture
Category: Homeownership
Very timely, a friend told me that his ex-employer is getting rid of furniture. We have enough for about 90 sqm, which leaves us with 24 sqm to furnish in the new house. So, I took the opportunity to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
High-Entropy Home Decoration
Category: Homeownership
Here are two snaps of my new home, taken just after breakfast today (the first bread I've baked in the house!). Both are taken toward the north: one from the kitchen door toward the dining room, the other standing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
New Place
Category: Homeownership
I'm typing this on my smartphone while digesting an evening meal of ramen noodles, egg and Chinese Sauerkraut from the tin. I'm in our new house. It's a mess, boxes everywhere. My wife is having a foot bath. Juniorette is...
Posted by Martin R at 12:07 PM • 6 Comments •
Moving House
Category: Homeownership
After a bit more than seven and a half years, we're leaving our apartment on Burbot Street and moving to a 114 sqm house on Shroud Street. Fisksätra's four main housing areas have street names themed for fish, fishing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Home Owner
Category: Homeownership
For the past ten years, I've lived with my family in rented apartments in a 1970s housing estate that covers the erstwhile infields of the poor tenant farm of Fisksätra. Yesterday, my wife and I signed a contract to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
