Reply To: [unofficial weekender] GUARDS! GUARDS!

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@blinky465 it’s not a “just visiting”-feel … it’s been more like “I can’t believe I own this house and it’s mine”.
Spending time there has been helping a lot. Now I feel like I only have to return to my ‘old’ place because that’s where my computer and internet lives at the moment.

I replaced a couple of light switches today with a bit of mild cursing, but also an odd sense of accomplishment once the things were back in place. Curses were mostly aimed at whoever just assumed folk knew how to disassemble the switch without a manual. Oh … and the *beep* who decided that both wires for a switch had to be brown, when the only the ‘live’ one should be that colour and the wire to the light fixture should be black. I suspect there’s another switch I need to rewire to fix a similar abuse of colour coded wires. OTOH … the entire house is older than me and I think the previous owners have done a few things themselves (or without the help of a licensed sparky).

In other news : a bucket with 10 liter wall paint requires 2 or 3 people to lift. That is … if said people are me.
I think I shall haul smaller buckets, even though the big one may be less expensive per liter.

I hope to have proper internet in a little over a week.