Transmission fluid? Where have I been?

 So the lovely and fabulous madlee276  came to stay with us on Wednesday, and a good time was had by all! We were supposed to be going to a Matt Berry gig on Thursday, but he cancelled it (again) and so we compensated by watching lots of Dungeons and Dragons, Robot Chicken, and The Tudors. And eating chocolate pots. Ah... Sadly she left yesterday, leaving me with no choice but to make more chocolate pots and watch terrible, yet wonderful, creature feature films all night. Films like Deep Rising, which possibly has the best ending evah.

Anyway. It's only ten days til we get the keys for our new place, so today there's going to be some serious house-moving prep going down. Namely, the garden. Seriously, you guys. Our garden is currently similar to this:

 

 There are things living in it. In order to have a shot at getting our deposit back, we need it to look like this:

 

So, yeah, I'm wishing myself good luck with that. I'd prefer simply to burn it all and sow it with salt, but apparently that's not allowed.

 

 

 

Foiled!

So the lawnmower broke down halfway round the garden, which did indeed foil my attempts to tame it somewhat. I need to ring the landlords now and ask them to replace it, which will probably take months, meaning the garden will never be mown. Sigh. But never mind; I did manage to cut down most of the triffids bramble bushes growing out there, which is a big step forwards. And we did a lot of book-and-clothes packing today too. Just need to acquire some boxes from somewhere to do the rest now.

In the mean time, it's back to Ethan and Demonised. I've just written my favourite scene, the much-anticipated (by me) exorcism. Yay! Next up: Ethan does some private dicking. That's for tomorrow though; the combination of battling triffids weeding and writing has done my arm in for today. Time to enjoy my chocolate pot and psych myself up for the return to the day job tomorrow.

 

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