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[brightlywoven]

I have just had my ass-whupped in scrabble, due in part to exactlyhalf using all his letters with 'gremlins'.

Also, our bathroom is being replastered. An unannounced tradesman arrived on Wednesday, saying he was here to 'fixed the bathroom'. Exactlyhalf happened to be home. Didn't matter if he wasn't though, because college had given tradesman a key. (!!!) Was he here to fix the slightly creepy shower screen that leaks a little? No, he knew naught of this. He was here to 'fix a mark on the bathroom wall. He then proceeded to plaster over multiple bits of the bathroom ceiling/walls that had been, to our eyes, completely fine. Today he came and sanded and painted the ceiling.

Tomorrow at 10 he is coming to paint the walls.

Tomorrow being Saturday.

So this means I have to be up, have showered and be decently attired by 10. On a Saturday. And though I'd be lucky to sleep that late these days, I still object to the necessity on a Saturday for a non-existent problem to be fixed.

To give the college their due, they couldn't phone to warn us, because the phone line doesn't work. They apparently got this fixed for the previous tenants, but since they never bothered using it, they were unaware it still doesn't work. Good to know the college's priority is apparently to fix imaginary wall marks before providing a basic utility!!

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[cealdis.livejournal.com]

That seems rather odd of the college, although to be fair our banister still hasn't been fixed, despite us telling the estate agents numerous times (the last time the builders walked off with it and we haven't seen it since!).

We have a new scrabble variant which we can bring round, if you'd like? It is very fun.

Incidentally, are stomach bugs contagious?

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Yes, general negligence from landlords I sort of expect - but not this combination of attention and neglect!

Scrabble variant sounds like fun - bring it round! (Where it is probably the idea!).

Bugs that cause vomiting/the runs are generally spread by the 'faecal oral route' and contagion preventable by good hand hygeine, although some gastro viruses are highly virulent and difficult not to spread. Are you guys oK?

[cealdis.livejournal.com]

Footnote appears to be unwell, to the point of not quite projectile (although he appears to be asleep currently). I feel fine. Certainly in the past there has been evidence that he tends to succumb more easily to things like food poisoning and such-like (possibly due to his smallness), so I was wondering if it was something like that (which would presumably not be contagious, unless I'd eaten something similar). His mum did come down with something stomachy the day after we got back, but it didn't seem like this at all.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Poor Footnote! If it were food poisoning and you'd been eating all the same things I'd expect you to have symptoms at a similar time, but it could be a virussy thing. Hopefully he feels better soon! Do feel free to cancel if not, but likewise, you're welcome to bring him round for tea and sympathy if he's still not well.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The behaviour of the college plasterer has echoes of the days when servants would flit from room to room in the country houses of the aristocracy undertaking tasks without reference to their employers, each caste being invisible to the other...

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite scenes in Busman's Honeymoon ,touches on the subject in Lord Peter's response to Harriet has called to him that the chimney sweep has arrived:

'Oh frabjous day! I am coming my own, my sweep...What a genius you have for saying the right thing! All my life I have waited to hear those exquisite words, "Peter darling the sweep's come." We are married by God! We are married! I thought so once, but now I know it.'
'Some people take a lot of convincing.'
'One is afraid to believe in good fortune. The sweep! I crushed down my rising hopes. I said, No - it is a thunderstorm, a small earthquake, or at most a destitute cow dying by inches in the chimney. i dared not court disappointment. It is so long since I was taken into anybody's confidence about a sweep. as a rule, Bunter smuggles him in when I am out of the house, for fear my lordship should be inconvenienced. Only a wife would treat me with the disrespect I deserve and summon me to look upon the - good lord!'

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I dreamt about you, exactlyhalf and games last night! I think I was stopping in your flat.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Very odd! We have had a game day today, with Super Scrabble and magic. Quadruple letter scores!