Technology

It seems that microsoft is in the news again for the wrong reasons. We can feel quite smug about all these security scares and virus since the system we use at the Spread Eagle is relatively immune to viruses.

I spent yesterday afternoon fitting a new water management system to the gents toilet. The old control unit had been torn off the wall on a particularly boisterous Saturday night. It should have been a simple job, but due to a very low ceiling it involved a lot of grated knuckles and muffled swearing. The new system is now working.

Which is a good thing because this morning the guy from PHS turned up to reclaim the old one despite our having asked them to give us a week's notice. He took the soggy remains of the water management system and the two hand driers.

So this afternoon was spent fitting the new hand driers. The wall was peppered with old rawlplugs, but inevitably they were all at slightly different spacings to the new unit.

We're also preparing to move to a different room in the hotel since our existing bedroom is scheduled to be refurbished and become one of the new letting bedrooms. This involves a lot of moving, rearranging and reorganising. It all has to be done by the end of next week. The residents' lounge will be our sitting room and the adjacent room will be our bedroom.