Today was a productive but ultimately painful day. Following a nice family pub lunch with Jules’s mum, brother and his girlfriend, Jules and Little Blubs headed off to a bridesmaids’ tea-party to meet the others and for a final dress fitting. While they were out I set about running electricity between Jules’s sheds. This is a real Heath Robinson job involving an extension lead, a length of garden hose and some jubilee clips. The reason? Simple: we discovered the cable was not recommended for outdoor use; so the idea was to thread it through the hose, which by design is waterproof, of course.
It all started off well enough but as it reached the three-quarter mark it started putting up a fight. Although there was plenty of clearance, the cable kept kinking and jamming; effectively making the task akin to administering a string enema to a large Python. I was still struggling with it when Jules returned and despite our joint efforts, it refused to budge at the final foot or so. Fortunately, the length was sufficient to bridge the gap; although it left it more exposed than I would have liked. My patience and tenacity paid off, however, and now Jules can get to work on her jewellery making.
The rest of the evening was spent installing, uninstalling and reinstalling my Adobe applications after discovering In Design and the latest Photoshop beta don’t play nicely together. All good fun though,
