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 approvedGitRepositories:
  - "**"
 enableScripts: true
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 layout: ../../layouts/LayoutMdx.astro
-title: "2025 - don't look at the publish date"
+title: "2025"
 date: 2026-08-29
 dir: year2025
 image: spare-done2
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import Callout from "../../components/Callout.astro";
 import NextPrev from "../../components/NextPrev.astro";
 import Quote from "../../components/Quote.astro";
-Oops.
+Oops. Don't look at the publish date
 We forgot to write the blog.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ We got our lounge fireplace swept so we can have occasional fires on cold nights
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-To no one's surprise we have not kept up with the watering schedule for our balconet herb garden and they mega died over the summer while we were on holiday. (Lasted pretty well though, considering!) We got some herb pots for inside so we can just get new living herbs from the supermarket every time they die, which is frequently. We have yet to tidy the balconet planters.
+To no one's surprise we have not kept up with the watering schedule for our balconet herb garden long term and they mega died over the summer while we were on holiday. (Lasted pretty well though, considering!) We got some herb pots for inside so we can just get new living herbs from the supermarket every time they die, which is frequently. We have yet to tidy the balconet planters.
 (Pictures of herb pots)
@@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ But one day we realised our bedroom curtains weren't fully attached when they fe
 We decamped to the spare room while we tried some heavier duty ways to affix the poles. We found a more hardcore filler, refilled the holes, waited like a week for it to cure, and reinstalled the curtains. Nearly! To make extra double sure they wouldn't fall off again we also added metal brackets to share the load among more wall plugs. Finally success. It doesn't look the nicest but at least it has not budged since. 
 (pictures of the new curtain pole installation)
 Then we found out the spare room curtains were coming off the wall as well. We used the same heavy-duty filler with those and again, no budging since.
 # Spare Room
-Our main progress since our last update was to improve the spare room. When we moved in, our priority was to get it feeling more habitable as soon as we could. We steamed the wallpaper off and painted it contract white and said 'good enough for now', with the intention of decorating properly at a later date. 
+Our main progress since our last update was to improve the spare room. When we moved in, our priority was to get it feeling more habitable as soon as we could. We [steamed the wallpaper off](week1#what-a-week) and [painted it contract white](/week2#the-guest-bedroom-5f) and said ['good enough for now'](/week4#guest-room), with the intention of decorating properly at a later date. 
 [The Spare Room As Was](/week4#guest-room)
 What really sped up our decision to redecorate was that the radiator stopped radiating, and we had guests booked to come over in the wintertime.
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ First we mounted the new radiator on the wall. This was the easy bit.
 What came next was a lot of plumbing research using the good old school of youtube.
-Armed with our new expertise, we went to Screwfix to buy a big blowtorch. What followed was a lot of practice to solder pipe together without leaks. We had also remembered our tips from Simon as to how to solder pipe.
+Armed with our new expertise, we went to Screwfix to buy a big blowtorch. What followed after was a lot of practice to solder pipe together without leaks. We had also remembered our tips from Simon as to how to solder pipe.
 <Quote person="💡 Simon's Top Tip for Soldering 💡" date="Dec 2022">
  The important bit is to not set things on fire
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ In particular, we also recalled why you don't vertically wire wool the pipe to c
 We practised so much that we had to go back to Screwfix to get more pipe and couplings, and to get better flux and solder. The Baby's First Flux and Solder supplied by the kit was absolute rubbish. Maybe it's a ruse by Big Solder to get you to hire actual plumbers.
 We also needed to bend the pipe to accommodate the slightly wider combined width of the radiator and new TRVs. We practised this too. The trick for a dogleg is to draw a line on the pipe bender so your second bend is the same angle as the first. It's also important to be sure you're bending in the same z axis.
 <Cards
  images={[
    { title: "Practising", src: s("spare-plumbing1") },
@@ -198,8 +201,6 @@ We practised so much that we had to go back to Screwfix to get more pipe and cou
 Practice makes perfect! Or at the very least makes less terrible. 
 We also needed to bend the pipe to accommodate the slightly wider combined width of the radiator and new TRVs. We practised this too. The trick for a dogleg is to draw a line on the pipe bender so your second bend is the same angle as the first. It's also important to be sure you're bending in the same z axis.
 <Cards
  images={[
    { title: "Putting our practice to the test. Scary stuff!", src: s("spare-plumbing2") },
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ We refilled the system and monitored our handiwork for leaks, but there weren't
 Quids in. Nice and toasty warm.
-We also decided to switch out the switches and sockets for some new ones. We didn't want to go with the sockets we normally go for (cheap white Screwfix multipacks) as it wouldn't go, so Nikki decided to plump for some fancier ones. These are made by the same people as our 'invisible' kitchen island sockets, which, invisibility or lack thereof aside, are really very nice to use. The toggle light switch in particular is very fun to fiddle with.
+We also decided to switch out the switches and sockets for some new ones. We didn't want to go with the sockets we normally go for (cheap white Screwfix multipacks) as it wouldn't go with the walls, so Nikki decided to plump for some fancier ones. These are made by the same people as our 'invisible' kitchen island sockets, which, invisibility or lack thereof aside, are really very nice to use. The toggle light switch in particular is very fun to fiddle with.
 <Cards
  images={[
@@ -235,21 +236,21 @@ Last of all, we scheduled in our favourite carpet shop to replace our least favo
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-The new carpet is so soft to walk on. 
+The new carpet is great and so soft to walk on.
-They had to trim a little off the bottoms of the doors to account for the increased carpet thickness so we now have 100% more openable doors! Not that we needed to, but it's nice to have the option. We have a door wedge to keep it shut again.
+They had to trim a little off the bottoms of the doors to account for the increased carpet thickness so we now have 50% more openable doors! Not that we needed the door between the spare room and office to actually open, but it's nice to have the option. We have a door wedge to keep it shut again.
 We also managed to find this armchair in a local shop which just happened to be on sale, down from ludicrously expensive to actually worth getting. The colour is a perfect match! It's great quality too, very comfy to sit in, perfect for relaxing and reading.
 <Cards
  images={[
    { title: "Armchair", src: s("spare-done2") },
-    { title: "All done", src: s("spare-done3") },
+    { title: "All done*", src: s("spare-done3") },
  ]}
 />
-Done*. Asterisk of course. We had some other ideas for this room, maybe a desk or bureau and shelves, maybe a larger and comfier headboard, maybe a floor lamp for reading, but as always, other worse rooms are being bumped up the priority list for what we might tackle next.
+Done*. Asterisk of course. We had some other ideas for this room, maybe a desk or bureau in the alcove, extra shelves, maybe a larger and comfier headboard, maybe a floor lamp for reading, but as always, other worse rooms are being bumped up the priority list for what we might tackle next.
 # Thoughts