Misc

Did y'all know that We Are Klang's radio show, series 3 of Charm Offensive, and Milton Jones's Hello are out on CD? I didn't. I do now.

Went to a newly opened Indian restaurant with the Curry Club from work yesterday. Had an odd but delicious dessert, called "fruit salad in custard-flavoured milk". Which it was. Cold; custard about the consistency of single cream- thicker than milk, certainly- and flavoured with cardamom; fruit salad with apples, grapes, peaches, and a couple of other things. Yum. Apparently it was also nice with a bit of their carrot halva mixed in to it.

Nice plumber has mended my bathroom taps, taken away the old header tank (the space where it was is suddenly very useful), and put in an outside tap. Riches! No more carrying water down the stairs from the kitchen. Also, there's an easy-to-reach isolator and spigot indoors so I can drain the pipe to the tap in winter so it won't freeze. [*]
(I don't plan on using lots of water on the garden- I'm agin containers, because they need watering- but newly planted things do need it, and it was a right faff this year.)

Finally got round to freecycling the too-large compost bin, so that'll give me a bit more space to turn round in the garden.

[*]Further jobs: Lag pipes in cellar. Plaster and paint space-where-tank-used-to-be. Get waterbutt, fix to downpipe.
Of course none of the other jobs that needed doing before have gone away...