After finishing chores she was getting into ballet clothes when she thought.. "huh, I had better start getting this place ready for the upheaval that is going to take place and the first place I ought to start is the bedroom".
At the head of her bed is a radiator that she turned off when she built the cupboards, she couldn't sleep with it on as she'd have boiled in her sleep but there was no other place for the bed to go. Now with the guys coming to put the new system in, she asked them if she could have the new radiator in a different place, of course, was the reply.
Where the new one is going there was a book case, which was lying on its' side in which she kept dvds and cds, she dragged the unit across the floor to the other side of the bed and stood it up on its' base against the back of a big cupboard. She's been meaning to do this for many a year but today's great news was the motivator!
It fitted perfectly and guess what, on the top shelf is the perfect place for the television! She took a couple of little angle brackets and screwed the shelf unit to the back of the cubboard. The shelf is deep enough for it to swivel on its' stand so now we'll loll in bed and watch tv in comfort and all the dvds fitted in underneath and on the top will live the big radio that she switches on for me when she goes out. How neat is that!
Then it was off down the Kings Road to Leylands for a few supplies. Underneath a set of existing shelves on the bedroom wall there is now a big empty space, if she put up two metal shelving tracks, this will give her four wide new shelves.
Taking WW meant she'd walk through St.Luke's garden and up to the library, change some books, then continue on past Beaufort Street to the ironmongers, she bought a little hacksaw, screws, a new masonry bit, rawl plugs, a box of small tacks and a new draught excluder for the front door and had a pleasant walk home in glorious sunshine.
HOT sunshine too! Today was a great deal warmer than many of the days we had in the summer months. Tomorrow she'll put up the metal tracks, meet Debbie Goat at Bute Street Farmer's Market between 2.30 and 3.00 and go up to Nu-Line at Ladbroke Grove, this is one of the few places left in central London who have a timber yard AND a cutting service.
Yes, it would have been good to go to ballet but she has to get this place ready for the guys to do the work. She may get asked if they can start in a couple of weeks time and as she is pretty busy for the next two weeks, she had better 'rock on' and get wherever they need to have access to cleared out!
THAT, Dear Readers, means she has to take everything out of her secret hidy-hole.. this is the place where the main gas pipe comes into our flat and where the gas meter is.
I don't envy her this job as it is where she has lamps in boxes and other treasures but taking one box out at a time, she can do it.. she has to do it.. because they'll be needing to run a new gas pipe out and down into the bathroom where the new boiler will be situated.
So no frolicking about this week, she'll go to what she has to but come straight home to get the place cleared to give the the guys room to work. Bah.. what's another box or two in the sitting room? In fact, she'll have a look at what is stashed in the hiding place and if she doesn't need or want it any longer, it, whatever it might be, can go!
Donate, give or sell.. but out it can and out it will go.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 2nd, 2015.
At the head of her bed is a radiator that she turned off when she built the cupboards, she couldn't sleep with it on as she'd have boiled in her sleep but there was no other place for the bed to go. Now with the guys coming to put the new system in, she asked them if she could have the new radiator in a different place, of course, was the reply.
Where the new one is going there was a book case, which was lying on its' side in which she kept dvds and cds, she dragged the unit across the floor to the other side of the bed and stood it up on its' base against the back of a big cupboard. She's been meaning to do this for many a year but today's great news was the motivator!
It fitted perfectly and guess what, on the top shelf is the perfect place for the television! She took a couple of little angle brackets and screwed the shelf unit to the back of the cubboard. The shelf is deep enough for it to swivel on its' stand so now we'll loll in bed and watch tv in comfort and all the dvds fitted in underneath and on the top will live the big radio that she switches on for me when she goes out. How neat is that!
Then it was off down the Kings Road to Leylands for a few supplies. Underneath a set of existing shelves on the bedroom wall there is now a big empty space, if she put up two metal shelving tracks, this will give her four wide new shelves.
Taking WW meant she'd walk through St.Luke's garden and up to the library, change some books, then continue on past Beaufort Street to the ironmongers, she bought a little hacksaw, screws, a new masonry bit, rawl plugs, a box of small tacks and a new draught excluder for the front door and had a pleasant walk home in glorious sunshine.
HOT sunshine too! Today was a great deal warmer than many of the days we had in the summer months. Tomorrow she'll put up the metal tracks, meet Debbie Goat at Bute Street Farmer's Market between 2.30 and 3.00 and go up to Nu-Line at Ladbroke Grove, this is one of the few places left in central London who have a timber yard AND a cutting service.
Yes, it would have been good to go to ballet but she has to get this place ready for the guys to do the work. She may get asked if they can start in a couple of weeks time and as she is pretty busy for the next two weeks, she had better 'rock on' and get wherever they need to have access to cleared out!
THAT, Dear Readers, means she has to take everything out of her secret hidy-hole.. this is the place where the main gas pipe comes into our flat and where the gas meter is.
I don't envy her this job as it is where she has lamps in boxes and other treasures but taking one box out at a time, she can do it.. she has to do it.. because they'll be needing to run a new gas pipe out and down into the bathroom where the new boiler will be situated.
So no frolicking about this week, she'll go to what she has to but come straight home to get the place cleared to give the the guys room to work. Bah.. what's another box or two in the sitting room? In fact, she'll have a look at what is stashed in the hiding place and if she doesn't need or want it any longer, it, whatever it might be, can go!
Donate, give or sell.. but out it can and out it will go.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 2nd, 2015.
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