Well, I suppose for anyone who cares, you may have been wondering where I have been all this time: busy, dear reader, busy....with capitals .......B.U.S.Y.
Unusually the summer holidays have flown by all too quickly and it has been a test of strength and character to get through at times because not only have the children (and their chums) been at home for 6 weeks but also a whole team of builders finishing our extension. The building was supposed to be completed by the first week of the holidays. In the event they completed (more or less) in the last week . Most of the time it has been fine. Only one especially bad day stands out: we were looking after a friend's dog for a week and this coincided with a point in the building works where we needed 'all hands on deck'...namely 2 carpenters, 2 electricians, 3 plumbers, 2 labourers.
Nine builders, one senile dog (ours), one confused 'holiday' dog, two near-teenage children who want to lie in their beds and two rather fraught parents do not make for a good mix. Suffice to say that by 8 a.m. that day one child had risen in a filthy mood and, upon finding the electricity turned off (i.e no computer, no lights, no TV) stomped off to town, the other child was in tears because she wanted a shower and the water had just been turned off (resolved by taking her to kindly neighbour), senile dog had been accidentally trodden on, the plumbers had caused a leak in the header tank in the loft and then holiday dog decided to bite one of the electricians ankle ! Oh how we laughed.
Still, we are here and we have survived and now all (ALL ?!!!!! ..Cusp laughs slightly hysterically) we have to do is decorate the new rooms (bedroom, wet room, utility room, kitchen) and clean up and re-decorate the other rooms...3 bedrooms, living room, dining room and bathroom: so that should keep us out of trouble for a month or three.
The building has affected the whole house and now it is time to clean up and re-organise. Fortunately this phase coincides with the start of autumn...a season I love with gentle sunny days and a feeling of new beginnings and preparation.
When I get the opportunity to post again I shall do so but until then think of me up a ladder, filling in holes with plastic wood, emulsioning walls, cleaning carpets and putting things back where they belong.
Unusually the summer holidays have flown by all too quickly and it has been a test of strength and character to get through at times because not only have the children (and their chums) been at home for 6 weeks but also a whole team of builders finishing our extension. The building was supposed to be completed by the first week of the holidays. In the event they completed (more or less) in the last week . Most of the time it has been fine. Only one especially bad day stands out: we were looking after a friend's dog for a week and this coincided with a point in the building works where we needed 'all hands on deck'...namely 2 carpenters, 2 electricians, 3 plumbers, 2 labourers.
Nine builders, one senile dog (ours), one confused 'holiday' dog, two near-teenage children who want to lie in their beds and two rather fraught parents do not make for a good mix. Suffice to say that by 8 a.m. that day one child had risen in a filthy mood and, upon finding the electricity turned off (i.e no computer, no lights, no TV) stomped off to town, the other child was in tears because she wanted a shower and the water had just been turned off (resolved by taking her to kindly neighbour), senile dog had been accidentally trodden on, the plumbers had caused a leak in the header tank in the loft and then holiday dog decided to bite one of the electricians ankle ! Oh how we laughed.
Still, we are here and we have survived and now all (ALL ?!!!!! ..Cusp laughs slightly hysterically) we have to do is decorate the new rooms (bedroom, wet room, utility room, kitchen) and clean up and re-decorate the other rooms...3 bedrooms, living room, dining room and bathroom: so that should keep us out of trouble for a month or three.
The building has affected the whole house and now it is time to clean up and re-organise. Fortunately this phase coincides with the start of autumn...a season I love with gentle sunny days and a feeling of new beginnings and preparation.
When I get the opportunity to post again I shall do so but until then think of me up a ladder, filling in holes with plastic wood, emulsioning walls, cleaning carpets and putting things back where they belong.
9 comments:
Cusp -
I can't imagine nor do I know how you have found the energy to handle all of this - WEll DONE!
Sounds like alot going on - but with a household of my own with 2 young adult children and 6 animals and a husband - I could picture it all - thanks for providing me the chuckle.
Hope to see you soon.....don't do too much at once.
(Hugs)
You are doing the emulsioning etc yourself? Respect! All I ever did in that department was choose the colour of the paint. May the force be with you!
Sending you a (.) - or is it a (*) - for good measure :)
Dawn Thank you for your support
Signsie Yes emulsioning, rubbing down, lengthening shower curtains...ceilings are the wrost but we really cannot afford to have anyone else doing it so we have to do it and I can't eave it all to my partner..all hands on deck. Bl**dy tiring at times but has to be done...and a (*) backatya :O)
well well well, Cuspie, so it seems that you are related to Keats! (oh don't ask, I keep my ear to the ground)
I'm well impressed.
Oh dear, all that upheaval. Draining indeed.
Hope you haven't fallen off the ladder my dear!
Hiya Kahless...No haven't fallen off the ladder :O) Just so much decorating to do and been feel a but 'yuk' lately so no time to post. I'll be back in time ;O)
Hope you're well and thanks for dropping by
May all your walls be smooth and your brush strokes easy.
Yup that's busy, what a mammoth task! Hope you are finding time in between the madness to have a sit down.
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