There's light at the end of the tunnel!!!!

April 12th 2007

Kitchen's comin together......

The worktop men came today with 3 pieces of heavy Quartz.......its like Granite but with shards of glass in it. The worktops will no doubt be used to stand kettles, toasters, old newspapers, the post and the washing up so you'll probably never see much of this glistening finish anyway....but its there.

And the electrician arrived this morning to connect up the ovens and the hobs, he's goin to send his mate round to look at the CAT 7 cabling and see if we can do away with the trailing lead I have out of the plant room to the outside where it comes in through a window in my office and into a telephone socket with telephone and computer attached!!! (very Huf)

A Huf maintenance guy arrived from Germany this morning to fix a couple of things including a sensor on the solar panel. He arrived at around 9.30 am (which meant leaving Hartenfels around 3.00am??? He spent a couple of hours here and then went to another site near Dover before driving home.....back to Germany!!!!! Now I don't know about you but a trip to Germany would mean weeks of planning, having the car serviced a couple of times, renewing the passports etc etc......

And those LED lights in the kitchen??? Regular readers will remember this argument almost meant my wife and I coming to blows in the kitchen showroom. I lost, and shelled out £600 on some fancy LED lights to light the cupborads which house the dogs canned food etc. I fitted them OK, almost made me sick as I found some LED sticks in a shop the other day for £8 each!!!! Anyway , when you switch these on at night, they are bright blue....and I mean BRIGHT!!! A passing neighbour might think I'm doin some arc welding at night when they're on.........totally useless!!!!!

Andy and Baz and Graham return on the 23rd to start the groundworks.......gabions to support the embankments, push some muck around, build a brick wall and trim some trees.....then topsoil and then I can get some lawn down and the dog can go outside...at the moment its just mud and she is desperate to have some green grass to go for a widdle.

Off to France for a few days...so will return to the next phase which is the return of the blind man and the wardrobes and the earthworks......the comment 'still at least we're in' now causes my wife to scream uncontrollably....so I tend not to use it so much now.

Oh I must get a plumber so we can have a sink and taps that work in the kitchen......still at least we're in!!!!!