Khazi Konunundrum

Toilet tissue dispensers are the work of the Devil and that is that. No-one knows how to load them properly and you end up with the closest available sheet of tissue stuck about 1/16” further inside than your fingers can comfortably reach. This means that you have to perform contortions that a normal human being is not designed for in the best of circumstances, when you are not in the best of circumstances.

The damned things are virtually indestructible too, so prising them open, or off the cubicle wall is not generally an option and if it was, you just know that the entire kit and keboodle would skitter across the tiled floor into another cubicle, stopping just 1/16” further inside than you could comfortably reach even in the best of circumstances.

And so the spiral continues downwards until there can be no happy outcome.

Khazi Konunundrum

Toilet tissue dispensers are the work of the Devil and that is that. No-one knows how to load them properly and you end up with the closest available sheet of tissue stuck about 1/16” further inside than your fingers can comfortably reach. This means that you have to perform contortions that a normal human being is not designed for in the best of circumstances, when you are not in the best of circumstances.

The damned things are virtually indestructible too, so prising them open, or off the cubicle wall is not generally an option and if it was, you just know that the entire kit and keboodle would skitter across the tiled floor into another cubicle, stopping just 1/16” further inside than you could comfortably reach even in the best of circumstances.

And so the spiral continues downwards until there can be no happy outcome.

Domestics

Flat pack CD shelves are horribly heavy when flat and surprisingly light when assembled. Admittedly we haven't installed the shelves yet (wood glue takes 6 hours to go off, apparently), so they must have all the weight. They are lying flat on the floor of the bedroom at the moment; we'll stand them up tomorrow and complete the construction followed by installing all the CDs and moving a few things around the bedroom to accommodate the two stacks and the existing shelf space that will suddenly become free, with a little rearrangement, to hold books.

The wallabok family arrives tomorrow with our new 36" widescreen telly, DVD recorder and exercise bike. Oooer. The telly we have is generally OK, but despite taking the back off once and tightening things up a bit, despite the imaginative use of cocktail sticks to provide leverage, the SCART sockets are decidedly loose and we keep losing sound on the digital channels. Not to the extent we once did, certainly, but enough to be a pain in the rear end. The new beast has twin tuners, so I may find myself playing with our televisual arrangements and digiboxes. That said, as any of my long time readers will know, we do not have the best digital reception around here and the transmitter upgrades for London are scheduled last for the entire country. Never mind; shiny new telly with twin tuners and wide screen!

I just hope we don't kill ourselves getting it up the stairs.

Domestics

Flat pack CD shelves are horribly heavy when flat and surprisingly light when assembled. Admittedly we haven't installed the shelves yet (wood glue takes 6 hours to go off, apparently), so they must have all the weight. They are lying flat on the floor of the bedroom at the moment; we'll stand them up tomorrow and complete the construction followed by installing all the CDs and moving a few things around the bedroom to accommodate the two stacks and the existing shelf space that will suddenly become free, with a little rearrangement, to hold books.

The wallabok family arrives tomorrow with our new 36" widescreen telly, DVD recorder and exercise bike. Oooer. The telly we have is generally OK, but despite taking the back off once and tightening things up a bit, despite the imaginative use of cocktail sticks to provide leverage, the SCART sockets are decidedly loose and we keep losing sound on the digital channels. Not to the extent we once did, certainly, but enough to be a pain in the rear end. The new beast has twin tuners, so I may find myself playing with our televisual arrangements and digiboxes. That said, as any of my long time readers will know, we do not have the best digital reception around here and the transmitter upgrades for London are scheduled last for the entire country. Never mind; shiny new telly with twin tuners and wide screen!

I just hope we don't kill ourselves getting it up the stairs.