I'll roam if you say roam but I'd just as soon you didn't
Good lord, the combination of start of term at work and no home internet has been torrid for my posting habits. I am pleased to note, however, that as of Thursday I am back home, which is still fairly full of builders but is also largely habitable, being as how the builders are drifting around doing all the last-minute fiddling but the ADSL is working. The house is painted inside and out, the floors are sanded, the extensions are done, the new bathroom is installed, the wiring is completely refurbished, the shed is rebuilt and the patio and back courtyard are resurfaced. It's practically a new house, through which the cats wander, lost, confused and bumping into all the furniture that's no longer there.
I spent a ten-hour day yesterday, in tandem with our amazing cleaning lady, who is a Dynamo of Energy, cleaning the place to render it fit for human habitation. We had to take every last item out of the kitchen cupboards and drawers and wash it and the shelf/drawer before relocating, on account of the fine and plentiful layer of brickdust which had sifted gently in through the cracks, like vampiric mist. I'm still totally buggered from yesterday, my hands are in shreds and I ache in every bone, but the house is habitable. Today we hung curtains, which also all had to be washed. Tomorrow a select posse of long-suffering friends arrives to move all the furniture in from the garage. In two weeks or so, after a few more cleaning sprees, we might have a home again. One that doesn't leave grit in your teeth.
Since I'm still spacey and exhausted and have only a cute robotic brain suitable for the solving of minor puzzles after an entire day spent playing Machinarium (which I heartily endorse), I shall fall back on photos.
We can haz:
Floors.
Tiles, kitchen, for the use of, and courtyard, for the use of.
Bathroom.
Plz to boot out builders now? thx bai.
I spent a ten-hour day yesterday, in tandem with our amazing cleaning lady, who is a Dynamo of Energy, cleaning the place to render it fit for human habitation. We had to take every last item out of the kitchen cupboards and drawers and wash it and the shelf/drawer before relocating, on account of the fine and plentiful layer of brickdust which had sifted gently in through the cracks, like vampiric mist. I'm still totally buggered from yesterday, my hands are in shreds and I ache in every bone, but the house is habitable. Today we hung curtains, which also all had to be washed. Tomorrow a select posse of long-suffering friends arrives to move all the furniture in from the garage. In two weeks or so, after a few more cleaning sprees, we might have a home again. One that doesn't leave grit in your teeth.
Since I'm still spacey and exhausted and have only a cute robotic brain suitable for the solving of minor puzzles after an entire day spent playing Machinarium (which I heartily endorse), I shall fall back on photos.
We can haz:
Floors.
Tiles, kitchen, for the use of, and courtyard, for the use of.
Bathroom.
Plz to boot out builders now? thx bai.