Cardboard Honeycomb
It’s been a while since i posted a blog last – mainly because there hasn’t been anything particularly exciting to post about, i guess.
Christmas and new year have come and gone in that time and now it seems to be well into January!
Christmas was good. There were only 18 of us at my sister’s place this year though – which is a couple less than last year, as far as i remember. The meal was good – chaotic and crowded, of course, because Lucy’s place isn’t very big – but it was entertaining and the food was good. Later on, though, i got a bit bored of sitting around listening to drunks talking shit, so i went out for a walk.
I didn’t do anything special on new year’s eve, but then it doesn’t really mean much to me anyway – apart from having to put “08″ instead of “07″ when i write the date. Unusually, though, i was still up at midnight! The real new year’s on the solstice, which was long gone by then – and coincided with the full moon this year, which was kinda nice, even though it was cloudy and i hardly saw the moon that evening!
Solstice Full Moon Over Felixstowe Docks – taken from Harwich, 22/12/07
The other day, i finally got round to putting up some shelves in the room i’m staying in at my mum’s place. I chucked out this horrible, sagging, particle-board wardrobe, which took up lots of space for very little storage, put the shelves up where it had been, and moved the chest of drawers to under the shelves. That freed up a bit of floor space – which is very cluttered in this house, and drives me mad!
Putting up shelves here isn’t a simple matter though. It’s a small flat on the first floor of a 3 storey block and it was obviously chucked up on the cheap. Although the outside walls of the flat are solid brick, the internal ones are pretty much just cardboard. It amazed me when i found that out in 2004, when i installed a shower in the bathroom. They’re made of two layers of plasterboard (gyproc), with a sort of cardboard honeycomb between them – and virtually no wood anywhere. There are skinny slivers of wood at the corners and the door frames, and that’s it, which makes it very hard to find anything you can hang a shelf from.
Anyway, i managed it, and put up a couple of very solid shelves – which i can hang from without them bending at all! So now i can just about move in that room, finally! This flat is about the size of two matchboxes glued together and why i didn’t do it in 04, when i lived here for a year, i’m buggered if i know! 
Apart from taking quite a few photos and walking lots, that’s been pretty much it for the excitement in my life lately. The weather’s been reasonably ok most of the time – although it’s been quite cold mostly. Today it’s very grey, though, and sort of halfarsedly raining. I think it might rain properly a bit later – so i should be out for walk, not sitting here writing this, shouldn’t i?!
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