13
May
We
are ready for the council guy to arrive sometime this afternoon. Jan says this
one is bring swatches so we can chose which bits we want when they eventually
get to do the job. Tomorrow is the planer/designer and Friday it’s the sparky’s
turn. All it needs then is waiting for them to get on with the job. Remember
though, this is the council I’m speaking of, not a contractor of my choice.
This place will be a real pain in arse while it’s being done too and cooking
dinner will be fun. Luckily, we rescued the small lecy cooker we bought Tom, so
we will have that at least; and we have the fryer too.
I
sat watching Bag of Bones last night
and said she wouldn’t mind watching it, so I stopped it and rewound it to the
start ready for watching today. However (and I don’t want to give anything away
here), the story revolves around a bestselling writer who has lost the impulse
in writing. It had me thinking yet again that I really do need to get on and
write. And yet … I have very little interest in doing so and haven’t had for
some time now. Jan even suggested that I had become ‘written out’ now. That
could be worrying for a full time writer, but for the hobbyist like me it’s not
anywhere near as big a problem.
Jan
was talking of heading out to Kingsbury today but she wasn’t feeling so good
when she got up; nothing serious, just a bit under the weather sort of them.
Anyway, I am still looking to go to Leicester on Friday. With that in mind I
had a look at my Leicestershire A-Z map. I don’t know the city very well
really, so I surprised to find the huge great Watermead Country Park just off
the A46 north of the city http://www.leicscountryparks.org.uk/watermead-visitor-information/.
I won’t be doing it on Friday though, that’s one for both of us, and probably
Kile too. It certainly looks as though we can around there but I’ve emailed
them to ask anyway. It’s a pretty large site too by the looks of it so I’m not
sure we could do it all in go. We’ll see when we get there then.
Our
council visitor arrived and is getting on with doing all the paperwork on the
choices we’ve made. So I’ve asked when it will be done, August/September time
perhaps … well, you know what she means perhaps. I also asked how long will it
take? Fourteen working days! That is going to be a nightmare. And yet that’s
not the worse bit. The work surfaces are as they now is around 6” to narrow; if
it wasn’t like that the amount of space in there would really tight. Not only
that, the council demands that the surfaces are as deep as the cooker is, which
means our kitchen space will be very tight after it’s all done. Our next
concern will be where to store all our appliances. The fridge and freezer can
stand in the hallway but where do we put the washer, dryer and cooker? Me eds
aching already!
So
now we come to photo time …
A herring gull.
And
today’s funny …
Neil Armstrong lands on the Moon and says the words:
"Over to you, Gretsky." Everyone's confused and asks him what does he
mean but he refuses to reveal it. However, he's at a 20-year reunion for the
Moon landing and he's asked once again: "Why did you say, 'Over to you,
Gretsky'?" "Well," he says, "when I was younger I used to
live beside an old couple called the Gretskys. They always argued, and his wife
said to him: "The only time you'll get oral sex is when man walks on the
Moon."
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