Can anyone else believe it's AUGUST, already!!!???!! And 6 days in, to boot! Ok, so....apologies to Alison, I'm really not keeping up with this blog as well as I should do and certainly not as well as she would do! :) BUT we have planned a visit, Ali Pali is coming to see our house for the first time after nearly a year of blog reading and encouraging comments...can't wait to show her around. It'll be posh china and cup cakes for coffee break, that day! :)
I will bullet point again...still need to sort out the picture prob :(
- Sparky is booked for next week to finish the wiring in the house and sign off the new consumer board
- Builder is booked for week of 20th August to move the back door
- New kitchen is still being stored by the lovely chap who sold it to us (Mike has managed to sell the cooker that came with it, so it's actually cost us almost nothing!!)
- The kitchen ceiling is lagged and ready for plaster boarding once the electrics are finished
- Mike has done some plumbing for the first time and found it reasonably easy! He has moved the washing machine into the out house and rejigged the pipe work for the sink so that it's almost clear for the door to be moved in the kitchen (he's now planning other projects with his plumbing hat on!!)
- The bannister rail is stripped and finished and looking very good.
- We've had a lovely wet and dry BBQ to celebrate my birthday and Steph's graduation.....clever girl got a 1ST CLASS HONOURS DEGREE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN!! WOOOHOOOO....YOU GO GIRL! :) There was such a panic 3 days before the barbie; Mike went to put the marquee up at the back of the house instead of up the garden, where it was last year, and found it was a metre too wide and 2 metres too long! Eeeeekkk! Turned out ok though....we found a smaller one in Homebase that wasn't so heavy duty but a lot cheaper and fitted perfectly; Mike then managed to sell our old one so we weren't our of pocket..and all before the party!
- My baby girl turns 18 next Sunday so we have a big party planned for her and countless friends.....should be fun!
- My old school friend, Sally and her friend Caroline have been to visit for the first time.....just love to show people around and share good times :))))
- Deb has been for quite a few visits, her camper is gone from the drive now and back in London with her...makes the garden look so much bigger without it there but means she will have to bring it if she wants to stay again......we'll see how that works.
Reading back over all those bullet points, it seems like we have achieved so much again but it's actually been quite a frustrating time; there has been so much waiting for quotes and tradesmen to get back to us....and there still is waiting to do.....waiting for sparkies, builders and Mike's flat to sell...I guess we both get a little impatient when we are ready to get on and do things and the people we need to help can't fit us in for a few weeks. And it's even more frustrating as I'm on school hols and have time to help! :( But, hey, they do fit us in and it always all works out in the end :D Another good point, I now have someone working with me in the Family centre so will, very soon, be able to drop my hours back down to the 15 that I am supposed to work! Yay!
11th August.....and I still haven't posted this!
Hello again Bloggy....well, news is: the sparky has been and gone but still can't sign the consumer board off as he has to come back and finish the kitchen once we have fitted it and we have some very dodgy outside wiring that trips the fuse switches every time it's used! That will have to be sorted as well and THEN the consumer board will be signed off (we hope!)
Mike is, as we speak, screwing plasterboard to the kitchen ceiling; I have done my wifely duty by standing on the draining board with one end of the plasterboard balanced on my head whilst Mike fixed the other end.....waiting to be called for the next piece! Such a shame I don't have a picture of that!!! Hahaha!!
I have been spending many happy hours researching range cookers....still not properly decided but narrowed it down a little. Just not sure we can find one with an oven big enough to fit my very favourite cast iron cooking pan in :(( Well, not one that will fit the kitchen, look at least a little countryfied and be within our budget.....
9:30pm......we have eaten, walked the dogs, watched the Olympics and admired our kitchen ceiling......WE HAVE A KITCHEN CEILING! WOOOHOOOO!! We have struggled and heaved plasterboard into place (you wouldn't believe how heavy it is!) We've jigged and rejigged, taken up floor boards to get in from above (I very nearly got my arm stuck between the boards trying to reach the tiny bit of plasterboard that was playing up!) Now, no more dust and dirt and bits of lagging descending upon us! Only a week or four behind schedule but it's done...very, very achy, happy puppies, here :D
Tomorrow, we celebrate Hannah's 18th Birthday....more excitement! In between presents, meals and clubbing (Hannah, not us!) we have the Dean the builder coming to take the final measurements for the windows and new door in the kitchen so they can be ordered and work commence the week after next :))
That's all for now Blog....I will aim to be back on 19th August, the first anniversary of moving into our lovely home :D
Take care everyone xxx
11th August.....and I still haven't posted this!
Hello again Bloggy....well, news is: the sparky has been and gone but still can't sign the consumer board off as he has to come back and finish the kitchen once we have fitted it and we have some very dodgy outside wiring that trips the fuse switches every time it's used! That will have to be sorted as well and THEN the consumer board will be signed off (we hope!)
Mike is, as we speak, screwing plasterboard to the kitchen ceiling; I have done my wifely duty by standing on the draining board with one end of the plasterboard balanced on my head whilst Mike fixed the other end.....waiting to be called for the next piece! Such a shame I don't have a picture of that!!! Hahaha!!
I have been spending many happy hours researching range cookers....still not properly decided but narrowed it down a little. Just not sure we can find one with an oven big enough to fit my very favourite cast iron cooking pan in :(( Well, not one that will fit the kitchen, look at least a little countryfied and be within our budget.....
9:30pm......we have eaten, walked the dogs, watched the Olympics and admired our kitchen ceiling......WE HAVE A KITCHEN CEILING! WOOOHOOOO!! We have struggled and heaved plasterboard into place (you wouldn't believe how heavy it is!) We've jigged and rejigged, taken up floor boards to get in from above (I very nearly got my arm stuck between the boards trying to reach the tiny bit of plasterboard that was playing up!) Now, no more dust and dirt and bits of lagging descending upon us! Only a week or four behind schedule but it's done...very, very achy, happy puppies, here :D
Tomorrow, we celebrate Hannah's 18th Birthday....more excitement! In between presents, meals and clubbing (Hannah, not us!) we have the Dean the builder coming to take the final measurements for the windows and new door in the kitchen so they can be ordered and work commence the week after next :))
That's all for now Blog....I will aim to be back on 19th August, the first anniversary of moving into our lovely home :D
Take care everyone xxx
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