Thought I'd fixed everything yesterday. I was wrong. It's fixed now, though.

Hmm, apparently this thing leaves a huge gap whenever I only post a one-line entry. How odd.

I've been taking full advantage of my shiny new camera over the past week or so. So far, it's been around the west end, into work and up to Loch Lomond. Apart from changing lenses (which is something of a hassle when you're on the move), it's absolutely perfect. And in fairness, I could have got around the lens problem if I'd fancied spending £550 extra on an all-in-one lens, which I didn't, oddly.

Anyway, seeing as I'm stuck waiting for flooring to come (still), here is some of the photographic evidence that I haven't just been sitting in the house...

Pretty much the first proper image I managed to take this was basically an experiment in night-shooting without using the simple auto-mode (which, when shooting in the city, makes the sky orange. I mean, the sky is orange, but still). Stood up at Partickhill and aimed it at Glasgow Harbour. I took another one which was zoomed in - you could pretty much make out individual rooms, which was a tad scary given that I was at least a mile away.

A west end stalwart, Ashton Lane. We didn't actually end up in any of these pubs as they were either a/ mobbed or b/ rubbish, but it still looks nice in a picture. This one was just done on auto mode, as were most of the others as it made pretty much as good a job was possible.

Apologies to whoever owns the B&B at Balmaha and was confused by the randoms standing outside taking pictures of their windows, and windowboxes. Actually, when I write that, I'm impressed the police didn't turn up.

On the beach on the loch shore, there is this. It looks nice.

The sun finally came out as we were almost about to leave, so I got some reflection-type pics. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good, and better than the ones I took when the water was magically flowing uphill owing to my inability to hold the camera level.

I rather like this, actually, These were on a not insubstantial tree above the path. Thanks to the magic of zoom, they might as well have been on the ground...

...Much like this, erm, was actually. I want to figure out how to take a picture in the rain so you can see the individual drops; I haven't figured out how fast the shutter speed needs to be and how to make it work without the whole picture going black yet.

So yes, that's my adventures so far. I kinda hoped that in the time it took me to process the pics and type this, Mr B&Q would have turned up with my floor, but sadly no luck yet. Oh well.

Oh, I've yet to figure out how to colour-correct or anything in Photoshop (or indeed why I'd want or need to) so these are all exactly as they were taken, just resized and cropped a bit (especially in the case of the Ashton Lane one, as there were big ugly bins in the right of the frame which I failed to notice at the time).

Hello. You'll probably find that basically none of the links here work right now. You couldn't even see this front page until a minute ago, my server's gone nuts quite frankly. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Sorry.

Work continues on the flat - my joiner started yesterday. I now have windowsills made of wood, as opposed to minging PVC, and the cool old-style alcove which had been inexplicably half-filled in is now getting towards being restored to its former glory. Today he is building a cabinet; my tiler/electrician/plumber is getting bits of the bathroom plastered and finishing off tiling my kitchen (in theory, he's not here yet) and I'm waiting for 34 packs of hardwood flooring to arrive and probably fall through the floor.

Fun stuff.

Spotted yesterday, in Sainsbury's...

It's September.

So I felt that, what with Scotland having just recorded a historic victory in Paris, I should write about... how the work on my flat is going.

It's going not badly, actually. The rewiring is all but complete and my new kitchen hob is being fitted on Friday; the people who are fitting my new fire are coming to have a look tomorrow and will take the old one away in a fortnight; and I'm in touch with joiners and suchlike about getting various jobs done.

It also occured to me that I hadn't posted any pics of the new place yet, really. So, without further ado, here goes. I should really do this as a gallery, but I can't be bothered, so the scrollbar is your friend...

These are all pics of my new living room from various angles. The computer desk that you can just see in the third one is in a (not so) wee alcove, which is really handy and keeps it out of the way. Not much is changing in here, really. The sticker on the fireplace is condemning it so that's going; and I now have these in the inshot behind the TV:

They're LEDs and they change colour and do all sorts of cool things. Expensive but totally worth it. That is all going to be glass shelves so they reflect and refract and suchlike.

Next: the kitchen.


Not bad, as you'll see. A good size, loads of space at the far end, and only slightly let down by the fact that the floor currently looks like this:


There is a good reason, though; it means Mr Gas Fitter can come and easily lay a pipe on Friday. Then the thing will be put back together. Meantime, I'm forced to eat out again. It's a hard life.

Bathroom next. I should say it's getting replaced fairly soon. This is what it looks like...

Unfortunately, when the place was being rewired, it was discovered that the plaster on the ceiling wasn't the best. This is what happened, in fact, when the plaster - which wasn't actually attached to, well, anything - was touched:

Eek.

Finally, the bedroom. Not much getting changed in here; new doors on the walk-in wardrobe and some new decoration is all it needs:

So yo, that's my crib. Now get the **** off ma property.

Or something equally MTV.