Mucking Out
May. 25th, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jacey
I've spent all day today mucking out the office in preparation for getting the new laptop up and running and being able to remove a hideous set of slatted Ikea shelves that currently house the tower case for my computer and the all-in-one printer.
And I do mean mucking out - which is by far the most satisfying type of cleaning. It's the first time I've actually been able to move my desk for about five years. (And when I did move it... oh boy!) I filled the Dyson with just the grot from the office carpet and made a huge spider homeless (not that he'll need a home as he's probably in spidery heaven right now).
I've filled three binbags with stuff I previously thought I needed to save and am currently contemplating moving furniture round to make it more friendly and give myself a better working light... trying to figure out a kind of Yorkshire feng shui. (It must be reading 'Demon in the City' that's got me at it.
And I do mean mucking out - which is by far the most satisfying type of cleaning. It's the first time I've actually been able to move my desk for about five years. (And when I did move it... oh boy!) I filled the Dyson with just the grot from the office carpet and made a huge spider homeless (not that he'll need a home as he's probably in spidery heaven right now).
I've filled three binbags with stuff I previously thought I needed to save and am currently contemplating moving furniture round to make it more friendly and give myself a better working light... trying to figure out a kind of Yorkshire feng shui. (It must be reading 'Demon in the City' that's got me at it.
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Date: May. 26th, 2008 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 26th, 2008 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 26th, 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 26th, 2008 09:48 pm (UTC)Though isn't Elmet further East? We were married at Sherburn in Elmet - between Pontefract and Tadcaster.
How far did the ancient kingdom of Elmet stretch?
Tell me more about (local) ley lines, please.
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Date: May. 26th, 2008 09:54 pm (UTC)I also have a cameras in my laptop so we should be able to make video calls now.
Hopefully tomorrow the big wooden thing that my computer and printer were on will get carried away to the back shop by some big stron hairy Canadians (Yes I have Tanglefoot in residence again.)
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 02:06 am (UTC)We did have a very nice funnel weaver that took up residence in the kitchen sown the side of an old wooden filing cabinet that was impossible to move. He stayed with us for a few monts - haveing woven a verutable cornucopia of a web. He used to sit on the lip if the the funnel and if you walked too close he'd scuttle back down his funnel out of the way.
I was a bit twtchy because having been to Australia i know that their funnel web spiders are dangerous, but I looked this one up and he/she seemed pretty harmless except it said their breeding time was August and July was just coming to a close.
I don't mind providing a home for one housetrained spider, but their many millions of offspring would be more than my hospitality would stretch to, so that beautiful, work-of-art web and its maker met a vacuumy end.
Apparently vacuum cleaners are the number one killer of British household diders.
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 27th, 2008 10:55 am (UTC)I've got a few that way, I must admit but I don't trust my Vax to really do the job (no rotating brushes to beat them to bits). So it's usually a booted foot, or a flat, heavy object in our house. Or my beloved, if the spider's really big *g*
I don't think I'd last long in Australia, though I quite like to watch spiders when they're outside my house.
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 12:11 pm (UTC)Secondly - re Australian spiders. let me say 'me too' (very loudly). And snakes too. We didn't see a funnel web there but on our first day (in Perth) our host did yell for us to come an take a look at something in a woodpile. It was a tiny little black spider with a red spot on its back. 'Just thought you should see one of these for yourselves,' he said. 'If you come across one don't touch it - it can kill you.'
The other spidery experience was in Sydney - seeing a big fat web strung across the twelve foot gap between two houses. Swinging gently in the breeze were three enormous spiders with black and yellow striped legs. I promptly had the heebies, but our host just shrugged and said they weren't anything to worry about, however I got the feeling they were hunting for prey and would tackle anything as big as a a large domestic cat or a small child.
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 05:05 pm (UTC)http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/BritainElmet.htm and try particularly their map British map AD450-700
http://oldtykes.co.uk/Elmet.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmet
Sherburn is aparently off to the east of the kingdom. North it's bounded by the river Wharfe, south by the river Aire. It seems to have stretched from about Leeds to Kirkby Wharfedale/Sherburn.
I must get up there and potter about some day, it really calls to me.
Local ley lines ... I'll do another post *g*. Do you have a feel for the things yourself?
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 05:14 pm (UTC)You must be a bit south of both and somewhere in between?
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Date: May. 27th, 2008 09:31 pm (UTC)For some reason I now have a vision of Suicide Girls or similar wearing black and yellow striped stockings, swinging on trapezes.
I think I need some sleep. My dreams are likely to be weird, though.
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Date: May. 28th, 2008 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 28th, 2008 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 28th, 2008 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: Elmet again
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Date: May. 30th, 2008 07:07 pm (UTC)