The Weekend
This weekend was good, yes indeedy.
This week we are having our fitted kitchen well, fitted. So Ian (uvjunkie) booked Thursday off work as that was the date given for delivery of the kitchen items. Ian had cleared some space and generally done loads of good stuff over the week to ensure there was somewhere to stack the stuff over the weekend. On Thursday, the van arrived to drop the kitchen parts off, and couldn't get up our road (the street is rather narrow and cars park on both sides). So they had to rearrange it for Friday and bring a smaller van. Ian could only take the morning off as he had a meeting at 1pm, so I finished work dead on 12 and headed straight home to wait for delivery.
I spent the afternoon reading my book, feeling rather ill and then falling asleep on the sofa for a few hours. The kitchen arrived finally around 4.30, as is typical when time has been taken off work. Faintly worrying was the fact that they delivered a corner unit, when our kitchen has not got any corners for the unit. So we were slightly worried that we have somebody else's kitchen! However, Ian has just confirmed it is our kitchen, with a couple of extras thrown in!
When Ian arrived home, he had bought me a lovely CD as I have been feeling less than wonderful recently. We had a wonderful evening together and I was smiling and feeling happy all evening... he's far too good to me :D
We had also found out that Ian's weekend of work that was planned for this weekend was cancelled so we had the weekend together which was great news :)
Saturday we got up and decided to head into town to spend some vouchers we had saved up. First we had a lovely home-cooked breakfast with all the foods I'm not *technically* supposed to eat (it wasn't too bad, they were all 'grey area foods', but I should have been better!)
We headed into town, stopping off at the Arnolfini as Pete had recommeneded we pop in and see the "Landscape with Flowers" (by Jyll Bradley) that was in Gallery 1 as it was quite impressive. He was right. We also wandered around the rest of the gallery whilst we were there, which was "interesting" ;)
We then headed into town and went into HMV to spend some vouchers we had. Since there was a sale, we ended up with a few too many DVD's! However, Ian has been very good since we moved and not bought any (as we have been saving for the kitchen) so I think we managed to buy the last few months worth in one shop! However, it only cost us about £6 in real money, as we had vouchers which covered the rest. We headed over to the Commercial Rooms for a drink and found the place to be really nice now that it has become Bristol's first completely non-smoking pub. Something I fully approve of, as I don't really want to be harmed by breathing in other people's smoke thank-you-very-much (if I wanted to be harmed by tobacco products, I'd take up smoking dammit!).
Anyhoo... finally got home around 5.30 and sorted ourselves out some dinner before getting ready for the evening ahead. We headed out to the Bag of Nails to meet Dr Mark and Steve for a quick drink before heading over to the Hatchet to help celebrate Tess (tejp) and Matt's (msavigear) Hag Do (Joint Hen & Stag Do). It was a lovely evening and I had a great time, although I was still very tired. We headed home around midnight and straight to bed (quietly because Will was already there sleeping). Shocking behaviour... I must be getting old ;P
Sunday I spent the morning reading while Ian slept a little longer (I had wanted more sleep but my back was aching from lying in bed too long, so I HAD to get up!). Finally around 11am I couldn't stand it any longer, so I headed up to wake him up ;)
We had booked a table at the Adam & Eve pub for sunday lunch, so after greeting a very sore Will, we headed over to the pub for 1pm to claim our table. We were joined by Andy, Dr Mark, Steve and later Will. Lunch took a long while to arrive, but as always tasted superb. Best Sunday dinner I've ever had in a pub.
After lunch we headed home and set about the mamouth task of clearing out the kitchen in preparation for fitting of it this week. Once finished, we made some food and watched The Thin Red Line on DVD.
That was our weekend... how was yours?!?
This week we are having our fitted kitchen well, fitted. So Ian (uvjunkie) booked Thursday off work as that was the date given for delivery of the kitchen items. Ian had cleared some space and generally done loads of good stuff over the week to ensure there was somewhere to stack the stuff over the weekend. On Thursday, the van arrived to drop the kitchen parts off, and couldn't get up our road (the street is rather narrow and cars park on both sides). So they had to rearrange it for Friday and bring a smaller van. Ian could only take the morning off as he had a meeting at 1pm, so I finished work dead on 12 and headed straight home to wait for delivery.
I spent the afternoon reading my book, feeling rather ill and then falling asleep on the sofa for a few hours. The kitchen arrived finally around 4.30, as is typical when time has been taken off work. Faintly worrying was the fact that they delivered a corner unit, when our kitchen has not got any corners for the unit. So we were slightly worried that we have somebody else's kitchen! However, Ian has just confirmed it is our kitchen, with a couple of extras thrown in!
When Ian arrived home, he had bought me a lovely CD as I have been feeling less than wonderful recently. We had a wonderful evening together and I was smiling and feeling happy all evening... he's far too good to me :D
We had also found out that Ian's weekend of work that was planned for this weekend was cancelled so we had the weekend together which was great news :)
Saturday we got up and decided to head into town to spend some vouchers we had saved up. First we had a lovely home-cooked breakfast with all the foods I'm not *technically* supposed to eat (it wasn't too bad, they were all 'grey area foods', but I should have been better!)
We headed into town, stopping off at the Arnolfini as Pete had recommeneded we pop in and see the "Landscape with Flowers" (by Jyll Bradley) that was in Gallery 1 as it was quite impressive. He was right. We also wandered around the rest of the gallery whilst we were there, which was "interesting" ;)
We then headed into town and went into HMV to spend some vouchers we had. Since there was a sale, we ended up with a few too many DVD's! However, Ian has been very good since we moved and not bought any (as we have been saving for the kitchen) so I think we managed to buy the last few months worth in one shop! However, it only cost us about £6 in real money, as we had vouchers which covered the rest. We headed over to the Commercial Rooms for a drink and found the place to be really nice now that it has become Bristol's first completely non-smoking pub. Something I fully approve of, as I don't really want to be harmed by breathing in other people's smoke thank-you-very-much (if I wanted to be harmed by tobacco products, I'd take up smoking dammit!).
Anyhoo... finally got home around 5.30 and sorted ourselves out some dinner before getting ready for the evening ahead. We headed out to the Bag of Nails to meet Dr Mark and Steve for a quick drink before heading over to the Hatchet to help celebrate Tess (tejp) and Matt's (msavigear) Hag Do (Joint Hen & Stag Do). It was a lovely evening and I had a great time, although I was still very tired. We headed home around midnight and straight to bed (quietly because Will was already there sleeping). Shocking behaviour... I must be getting old ;P
Sunday I spent the morning reading while Ian slept a little longer (I had wanted more sleep but my back was aching from lying in bed too long, so I HAD to get up!). Finally around 11am I couldn't stand it any longer, so I headed up to wake him up ;)
We had booked a table at the Adam & Eve pub for sunday lunch, so after greeting a very sore Will, we headed over to the pub for 1pm to claim our table. We were joined by Andy, Dr Mark, Steve and later Will. Lunch took a long while to arrive, but as always tasted superb. Best Sunday dinner I've ever had in a pub.
After lunch we headed home and set about the mamouth task of clearing out the kitchen in preparation for fitting of it this week. Once finished, we made some food and watched The Thin Red Line on DVD.
That was our weekend... how was yours?!?