Well we have finally finished emptying the kitchen out ready for the work to start. It's taken a lot longer than I thought it would so it was just as well that we had this week to get prepared. There is stuff all over the house. Good thing Matt is away - a lot of it is in his room!
It was strange yesterday as all 3 of our kids were out of the country. But Rebecca is home today after a nice relaxing week in Tunisia..
Tomorrow we're all back at work. So I'm managing to relax for a bit this evening. Can still get to the sofa and the remote controls for the TV! It's been an awful day weatherwise - woke up to pouring rain. The rain has been so bad overnight that the fireworks display by us has been cancelled. Apparently the ground is too sodden. Unfortunately the area of ground they use for the display is where they had the temporary police quarters during the olympics, including horse stabling. The ground hasn't fully recovered from that yet so no display tonight. Hopefully the event will be rescheduled. The site is so close to us that we can see much of the display from our bedroom window although I usually walk nearer to the site to see it more clearly.
The cats of course hate the firework displays! Although they are not particularly happy right now as they're not sure what's going on with the kitchen. I've had to move their food and the litter tray so it's all a bit confusing for them and of course when the builders arrive they will probably just run for cover!
This week could be a bit trying.
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
Being Productive
Well this has certainly been a productive week - we have produced lots of rubbish! Actually the rubbish was already here and now a lot of it is not! One of the things we are having done with the kitchen improvements is to fit a TV aerial socket in the kitchen - our roof aerial is currently connected in the lounge but we want a socket in the kitchen as well - since the UK switched to digital the reception on the portable via an internal aerial is pretty useless.
To be able to do that means taking a wire down from the lounge into the cellar - under the floorboards and across to the kitchen. Actually it's a pretty simple job - now that we have cleared the rubbish from the cellar! The cellar extends underneath the hallway and lounge but only part of it can be walked in. The other part is a ledge that is about 3 feet higher than the ground level and 3 feel below the lounge floor level. The ledge had lots of rubbish on it - you know the sort of thing - offcuts of wood, etc, those things you keep - just in case you might need them one day! Some of it was left by the previous owners, such as a bath panel and an overhead drying rack amongst other things. No way could we expect someone to go crawling around that to sort out the wiring. So the rubbish had to go.
It was a horrible job but the cellar is already looking so much better. We had accumulated lots of other stuff too like tins of paint - kept for when you need to do that bit of touching up! Well as most of the tins hadn't been touched in years I didn't think we were likely to start using them now - especially as I'm on a mission to get lots of decorating done.
We're fortunate that our dump/tip (or civic amenity centre as it's also known) takes all household rubbish for free and there are various collection points for wood, paint, recyceable goods so we've made a few trips there this week and hopefully not too much has had to end up in landfill. That's the royal we of course! I've been once and then only because it was on the way to somewhere else. Nick's done the trips but then I did venture onto the cellar ledge to pass out the stuff - it was very dusty down there so we're about even.
As to our other tasks for the week, we both had a clean bill of health from the dentist but both need new glasses as our prescriptions have changed. The car also had a pain free service - nothing needed doing and as we'd arranged an extended warranty when we bought the car there was no charge. I'm plodding on with my physio exercises and today I finally got my foot looked at. As I suspected this has only led to a referral to the hospital orthopaedic team. I wonder how long that will take to come through!
The floor tiles for the kitchen have arrived. There are just a couple of bits we still need to get from IKEA which we'll do over the weekend. Matthew has picked a good week to be away. He is off to Switzerland tomorrow for a week for training. Fortunately he is not one of the many people that have been laid off by UBS this week.
Well now I need to get on with packing up the kitchen - it's another good exercise in sorting out what we really need to keep and what needs to be recycled/rehomed.
Never a dull moment here!
To be able to do that means taking a wire down from the lounge into the cellar - under the floorboards and across to the kitchen. Actually it's a pretty simple job - now that we have cleared the rubbish from the cellar! The cellar extends underneath the hallway and lounge but only part of it can be walked in. The other part is a ledge that is about 3 feet higher than the ground level and 3 feel below the lounge floor level. The ledge had lots of rubbish on it - you know the sort of thing - offcuts of wood, etc, those things you keep - just in case you might need them one day! Some of it was left by the previous owners, such as a bath panel and an overhead drying rack amongst other things. No way could we expect someone to go crawling around that to sort out the wiring. So the rubbish had to go.
It was a horrible job but the cellar is already looking so much better. We had accumulated lots of other stuff too like tins of paint - kept for when you need to do that bit of touching up! Well as most of the tins hadn't been touched in years I didn't think we were likely to start using them now - especially as I'm on a mission to get lots of decorating done.
We're fortunate that our dump/tip (or civic amenity centre as it's also known) takes all household rubbish for free and there are various collection points for wood, paint, recyceable goods so we've made a few trips there this week and hopefully not too much has had to end up in landfill. That's the royal we of course! I've been once and then only because it was on the way to somewhere else. Nick's done the trips but then I did venture onto the cellar ledge to pass out the stuff - it was very dusty down there so we're about even.
As to our other tasks for the week, we both had a clean bill of health from the dentist but both need new glasses as our prescriptions have changed. The car also had a pain free service - nothing needed doing and as we'd arranged an extended warranty when we bought the car there was no charge. I'm plodding on with my physio exercises and today I finally got my foot looked at. As I suspected this has only led to a referral to the hospital orthopaedic team. I wonder how long that will take to come through!
The floor tiles for the kitchen have arrived. There are just a couple of bits we still need to get from IKEA which we'll do over the weekend. Matthew has picked a good week to be away. He is off to Switzerland tomorrow for a week for training. Fortunately he is not one of the many people that have been laid off by UBS this week.
Well now I need to get on with packing up the kitchen - it's another good exercise in sorting out what we really need to keep and what needs to be recycled/rehomed.
Never a dull moment here!
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