Hellooooo!!

Greetings all!

We haven't done anything particularly exciting lately. Mostly we've been at work and then heading out to the new house in the evenings for a couple of hours, then coming home and eating late, then going to bed. Such an exciting life we lead!!

The Builder is going great guns with the decoration of the lounge room. He's got all of those plaster mouldings off the wall, replastered the resulting moonscape and sanded it down. He's almost finished making cupboards for the two meters. He's about to put struts up for putting shelving into the alcoves. Then it will be ready for painting.

He's painted over the wood "square" over the mantelpiece in the dining room to make it less obvious and is going to paint the entire chimney breast when he's finished getting the pretty patterned wallpaper out of the square. Then he's going to lay new flooring in the kitchen. Eventually he'll get around to sorting out the larder cellar, though that could easily be done once we've moved in.

I've been taking over kitchen stuff that we don't need in the next month. Lots of it has gone into the dresser. This includes the dinner service, so if you're coming to eat with us before we move you'll just have to slum it and eat off the kitchen plates!

gradually, gradually the Mudhut is being disassembled. It's looking very sorry for itself now. There are people coming to look at it on Tuesday evening.

We need a name for the new place. I emphatically refuse to refer to it as Glencoe. Obviously its Sunday name. It needs a family pet name!

The weather for the last few days has been glorious. Sunny and warm and quite summery. It's been a pleasure washing all the dinner set as I've taken it over. There are birds to watch and trains to spot and trees to observe and all sorts of things. This evening we are not intending to head out to the house. The Builder is there as we speak so no need to go again. I had been intending to go to the allotment after work. There is broccoli waiting to be picked and there are leeks waiting to be pulled and I want to pot up some of the herbs (no point buying new ones when I've already got perfectly good plants to divide). They forecast rain coming in from mid-afternoon. And sure enough. The clouds outside are dark and grey and threatening. Sigh!

Nothing much else to tell you. There hasn't been time to do anything else much. It will be good to get settled in then we can do other, more exciting things. Like go on a (nother!!) long haul holiday :-p (And I oh-so want to get stuck into the new garden!)