In ebullient mood, and following on from yesterday as a wonderful decision making day, we have now been implored to get our heads down to planning, in finest detail, the interior elements of the house. This covers the electrics, all plugs, sockets, lights and switches. The central heating system and the positioning of the boiler and all the radiators. The layout of both bathrooms, hand basins, bath, showers, toilets. The exact layout of all windows and doors within each wall. The plumbing system and hot and cold water inlets and drain outlets. Quite a daunting task, but not as daunting to me as the thought was of choosing the tiles.
We had a cup of tea after lunch today and again within an hour and a half we have done it all.
I think what is happening is that Elayne has got a cold (bless her) so her resilience to argue with me is not up to it’s normal belligerent standard. I have tried not to take advantage of her depletion of fighting energy (would I?)but we have got it all done and down on paper in record breaking time. I was so pleased that I nearly asked her to sign the plan at the end of the session.
One left over from yesterday, which you will find extraordinary for us, is that we did not take one single picture of all the tiles that we chose. However, comfort here, if Elayne can remember the colour of my socks when we visited Auntie Maud in nineteen seventy six, then unless her cold has paralyzed her brain altogether, woe! betide the builder if he dares to bring the wrong tiles up to site.
The builders are obviously letting the concrete set today because they have not shown up at all. We have just been up on site and I have been standing on the roof where the solarium will be. What a fabulous view from up there. See picture.
We are dancing tonight, instead of Mondays and Wednesdays, because Fernando (dance teacher) is studying for English teaching (primary school) exams in the summer, and felt that he could not do two nights dance teaching a week and his full studying as well. Fair comment, we are pleased to still be able to have his lessons once a week. We will continue to dance at Lentisco’s on Wednesday evening so we will both remain honed to bodily perfection for the foreseeable future.
One of the pictures is called ‘fiddler on the roof’ and the another ‘pile driver’, can you guess? Both have painful connotations.
We had a cup of tea after lunch today and again within an hour and a half we have done it all.
I think what is happening is that Elayne has got a cold (bless her) so her resilience to argue with me is not up to it’s normal belligerent standard. I have tried not to take advantage of her depletion of fighting energy (would I?)but we have got it all done and down on paper in record breaking time. I was so pleased that I nearly asked her to sign the plan at the end of the session.
One left over from yesterday, which you will find extraordinary for us, is that we did not take one single picture of all the tiles that we chose. However, comfort here, if Elayne can remember the colour of my socks when we visited Auntie Maud in nineteen seventy six, then unless her cold has paralyzed her brain altogether, woe! betide the builder if he dares to bring the wrong tiles up to site.
The builders are obviously letting the concrete set today because they have not shown up at all. We have just been up on site and I have been standing on the roof where the solarium will be. What a fabulous view from up there. See picture.
We are dancing tonight, instead of Mondays and Wednesdays, because Fernando (dance teacher) is studying for English teaching (primary school) exams in the summer, and felt that he could not do two nights dance teaching a week and his full studying as well. Fair comment, we are pleased to still be able to have his lessons once a week. We will continue to dance at Lentisco’s on Wednesday evening so we will both remain honed to bodily perfection for the foreseeable future.
One of the pictures is called ‘fiddler on the roof’ and the another ‘pile driver’, can you guess? Both have painful connotations.
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