Another technological joy; the estate agent’s tried to put an AI blue sky on this garden photo to cheer up the brutalist nothingness but AI didn’t understand that the neighbour’s white house wasn’t part of the sky:

I’ve found a cursed section of road on Google Maps while snooping around houses for sale. There’s one short stretch where the side roads are fine, but the main road looks like this:

Nova is suddenly being insanely clingy what is happening.* *He wants to Start Something so he’s getting in my space until he has an excuse to bite me and pretend it’s my fault.

Banged my knee on the bed and sat on the floor because it hurt, so Nova came over and sat with me like ‘hey, we sitting on the floor? Cool.’

So, I just got an ice cube out of the freezer and, ah. I feel like I interrupted something.

So, there was smoked trout in the Wimbledon hamper. I don’t eat (or like) fish but I’ve never tried trout and I was like okay, this is super fancy, I’m going to give this a solid try, I hate being picky. No. I hate fish, even thinly chopped with tasty potatoes and smoked mayo.

I apologise Sainsburys; these look delicious.

Wimbledon, you're now labelling your live scores for what, the drama? I can't decide if it's fun or if it makes me think your website team maybe need to tone down their shitstirring.

It was a detour but not so pointless because I found this cute sculpture I'd not seen before:

Went on a little park walk at lunch and I'm finally testing this mysterious path to see if it leads back into the woods I need to cut through home (I think I may just end up on a pointless detour tbh)

I really like that the Wimbledon live scores now tell you the players are warming up which is why there's no score yet. Also I need to turn over to Serena but this Berrettini-Wawrinka match is intense.

I just checked the live scores to see which court was screaming loud enough to be in the background of Norrie/Zheng and lol, why is Kecmanovic's profile picture giving the funny cat reaction meme:

The park was lovely though. Much cooler on the sea side of the hill 😭

OWL OWL OWL

I’ve broken and I’m drinking coffee for the first time in over two years because I can’t ice (English breakfast) tea.

Went on a Frustration Stomp to the nearest post box because I needed to return previous house owner’s post and I was annoyed about not concentrating all day and just At Everything In General aaaaand then it was a lovely evening and I had a nice time.

“Photos” from a patient resource I was just sent by a nurse who’d “put it together”. Did you. Did you really. THEN WHY IS THAT “WOMAN’S” HAND MELTED AROUND THE MAN’S ARM. WHY DOES EVERYONE LOOK LIKE A MANNEQUIN. WHY IS THIS SOMETHING I AM HAVING TO RESPOND TO POLITELY INSTEAD ‘WHY FUCK WHY’.

The sand is so close to the prom at Grange now!! I've got a photo from pretty much this spot from like fifteen years ago of a dogwalker standing at the edge of the grass and they're a tiny silhouette because they're so far away.

I have missed this train ride.

Part of the reason I can’t afford fun these days: I chose to strip my stairs instead of enduring the epically shitty paint job done by the last owners so I have to buy power tools like some ridiculous renovation influencer but without the brand deals 🙃

In a burst of motivation* I finally yanked the pointless fake transom bars off the orangery doors and then since I was committed, cleaned all the sticky residue off. It’s so, so much better. Even the scratches from the last owner’s dog aren’t as noticeable. * to avoid walking to Sainsburys

Success.

I just had my print of the Nemesis comics (www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...) professionally framed to go on my gallery wall:

I’ve reluctantly forgiven her for the gratuitous murder yesterday because honestly, her tiny brain has 100% deleted all memory of it.

It's getting colder again after today so I thought I'd sit in the orangery while it's still warm and honestly, it's so nice in here when it's not six sodding degrees like it was most of the winter.

Right no, this is too hard, I give up.

This is the neighbour’s. I actually offered on this house before this one and didn’t get it and I’m still a bit sad about it because it clearly had actually had work done and been looked after.

Finished the second coat of the pale grey so the walls are all DONE. Even the annoying bit behind the stair bannister that was clearly designed by either a lunatic or a sadist:

Jesus, Cody. The only silver lining is at least it wasn’t McAfee who injured him or the IWC would actually eat itself in rage.

I’m so happy I spent days stripping this bit of wall and sanding down the terrible mess the last owners left when filling the holes from their baby gate, because even the tiny dents left show up. It would’ve looked so awful otherwise.