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Half Term Week

by Liz & Matt Coates Oct.25.2006 2:11:35 am


On Friday, the upstairs was declared finished (or as near as we are likely to get for a while) and ready to be decorated. This week is half term week and, with uncharacteristically good timing, we had both booked the week off work at exactly the right time to get on with the job.  We spent all weekend undercoating walls and priming woodwork in the new bedrooms and the girls all pitched in with considerable enthusiasm.  More of the same followed on Monday and the electrician was here all day rewiring all of the downstairs lighting, moving and replacing switches and putting in network cables.

Today (Tuesday), Liz and I hired a van and headed off on an expotition to Ikea in Milton Keynes (leaving the Birds at home to look after the girls and get on with some more painting) with the intention of buying the kitchen.  This was not entirely successful but probably requires an entry all to itself … sometime after I’ve recovered from the psychological trauma and finished the course of anti-depressants.  Suffice it to say that we are going to have to make another trip to complete the exercise tomorrow, this time at a completely different Ikea store.  In the mean time, the builders laid the insulation and concrete for the new kitchen floor, delivered the new bay window (minus glass) and finished off painting some of the external woodwork.

Oh, and there was a glimmer of hope last week, when were were told that BT would be able to come to sort out our broadband connection on Saturday, rather than Wednesday.  Despite waiting with eager anticipation all day, they failed to turn up as promised and have now rescheduled for their original date of Wednesday.  We live in hope (a bit).

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