We’ve been putting the new liner on M&D’s pool today, we got it done by about 5pm, including picking up new sand – although we have to let out some slack tomorrow morning now it’s got some water in it. It was a good workout, shovelling water and sand, plus the algae will do wonder for my skin I’m sure 😉 It’s been an absolute scorcher today, bit of a wind, but not a hurricane like Scotland has seen!

I’ve been playing with C# again, today I’ve made a simple web browser, with various event handlers, widgets and even input-validation!

I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005 Pro today to play with some more C#. I must say that the whole strictly-typed thing is a bit of a pain. Having to use f-notation and explicit casts seems counter-productive, especially when C# defaults to Doubles instead of the more efficient but less accurate Floats. I think C# is very much like Java in that it’s mainly about learning the Framework (API/library) rather than keywords of the language itself, as there’s already a method for doing pretty much everything in the Framework already, plus of course the IDE has code completion etc.

Mum & Pip went to Leroy Merlin today and got me 10% off the four windows I need for the shell, came to under 500e as they were slightly cheaper than in the catalogue. The shell will look like a regular house from the outside with new windows and doors. Mum & Dad got a new liner for the pool as it’s still leaking despite about a dozen patches I put on it, although it hasn’t stopped raining for 24 hours, so it might be a bit pointless fitting it until next year….

We have got the new glass in the front door on the shell now, and a new heater for the utility room. It looks like I can replace all the windows in the shell for about 500e, that’s double-glazed wooden dual-openers. I went and collected my 40e prize from SuperU today. I’m trying to write a list of what I want to get, probably a tin of duck, some Ajax cleaner, bottle of rum, a couple of kilos of mussels, some cured ham….