Watching a Grand Designs right now about a family (a dad) building their own house with no money and it’s taking ages…and I remember this house. I believe it doesn’t get done in time for the first episode so they come back to it later…and I might be conflating it with...

A non-starter day. Blech. Didn’t have the focus. But I will tomorrow. The full day. That’s all I have to say about that. I started Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it is already fantastic. Moving. Doesn’t explain itself but crystal fucking clear. The *sound* is...

We watched a really cool episode of Grand Designs tonight that was about a lifeboat house—one of those ones built right on the beach with the launch ramp attached so the boat can be deployed at any time, like, from the Coast Guard—that this older couple was converting...