You probably didn’t notice unless you’re a regular visitor (in which case “Hello again!”), but I’ve had to disable posting of comments to the entries in this blog. This is due to having had the number of comments double overnight thanks to some unsavoury characters advertising porn and viagra sites in their comments.
I would re-enable them if I can find the option to allow comments to be put in a “pending queue” type thing, assuming there is one, since I would rather not have to go through the hassle of deleting comments every few hours.

Updated Moveable Type (the blog backend) today. Can’t see any changes so far.

Well, the appliances are finally wired in – just need to put the sponge strip around underneath the hob, fasten the extractor fan hose onto the top, and screw the oven into the cabinet and we can use it. The splashback is going to cause some problems due to the worktop not going right back against the wall. We’ll just have to see how it goes.

After having spent Sunday night in hospital with suspected appendicitis, I can say that it’s really not something I want to do again in a hurry. Thankfully I was feeling much better by the morning and was discharged before lunch. Never did fully figure out what was wrong but I just hope it doesn’t happen again.