So, what have we been up to over the past few weeks since my 99th post? It's been all centred around getting the flat organised I'm afraid. Jo and I are officially sick to death of paint and paint brushes! After two full weekends of painting (8am to 7pm both days) we were absolutely exhausted that we both came down with a cold and I had a day and a half off work!
Once the painting was finished and I was recovering, Freedom thought this would be a good time to tell us that the decking boards we had been waiting 2 months for had finally arrived. Sigh. We had Jo's mum down to stay for that week and her partner Andrew came down to visit on that night, and what a stroke of luck that was! When Jo and I went to Freedom to pick up these decking boards (16 packs) we had no idea just how heavy and huge they were going to be. We only just managed to squeeze them into the car and drove home very slowly as the car felt like it was dragging along the ground! Andrew helped us lug these things up our 2 flights of stairs.
Now, as I mentioned how sick we are of painting and paint brushes, can you imagine what I had to do next? Yes, OIL the decking boards. TWO coats. Waaaahhhhhhh!
We finally put them down on the back balcony a few days ago and they do look nice, but god they should do for all the effort that went into them!
I am now working from home today as we had some guys come to rip up our carpet ready for our floorboard installation tomorrow. That all passed without incident but when the man came to deliver the floorboards arrived, by himself, with 30 packs of boards, 2.4 metres long, each weighting about 20kg we knew what was coming next. Jo and I helped the poor bastard as much as we could to get these things up our 2 flights of stairs and Jo made a rather cranky call to the floor place to complain that we shouldn't have to help with our own deliver because the shop don't tell the delivery people they will have to carry the materials up stairs. Grrrrr.
Artist's impression of how floorboards might look :)The boards go in tomorrow starting at 7:30am, so we are hoping for an event-free day and that everything goes smoothly as can be. Fingers crossed! I'll post some pictures when it is all done.
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Sounds like a helluva load of hard work, but if it finishes up anything like the "artist's impression" it'll be worth it!
Got the Amazon package - thanks! Hopefully your one will have arrived or at least be well on the way...
Less said about the cricket the better - but at least Monty did the biz!
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