Oooo I'm cross

So this air conditioner thingy arrived. "Very powerful" said the website. I trundled it into the cellar, got the joiners to cut a hole in the door for the vent hose, connected it up...

and the b****y thing only goes down to 17C! What flaming use is that? The cellar's only at 18C as it is!

So I phoned the folk who sold it and they said "Oh, no standalone unit will go down to 12C - you'd need a commercial machine for that. It's for cooling your living room. You should have said when you ordered. We'd have told you. 12C nonono, can't be done"

Can't be done eh?

Well, they don't know who they were talking to! I have devised a cunning plan (TM) involving lengths of piping, squeezy bottles and sticky back plastic. Stay tuned for further developments!

Joinery work going well today. The boxing in of cables in the front hall was completed, the plasterboard under the pend continues and we've ordered the bathroom fittings for rooms 2 and 5.

Oh, and the National Museum of Scotland turned up to remove the old dumbwaiter. Much banging and hammering and the contraption was removed and taken off to a warehouse in Edinburgh.

Englandshire beat Trinidad at the fitba. About 5 people were in the bar to watch.