things are lookin up!
my neighbour -- who is in many respects a sweetheart -- has FINALLY (after rather more than a year) got some foax to move his crappy horrible old filthy broken cooker OFF the landing between our flats and down to its final resting place i know not (and care not) where
bcz i am a superspitious nvtj00b i immediately "realised" this meant all kinds of other things i am waiting for will now start tumbling into place -- WE SHALL SEE