February 2010

The end of tiling

At last a day without “outside” interference and also a night I actually slept through instead of my usual 3:00am tossing and turning so an ideal time to get stuck into the tiling job and get it done. Lots and lots of cutting, thankfully these tiles are much easier to cut than the bedroom tiles. […]

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Tiling

This week will be all about tiling and hopefully by the end of the week most of the work in the kitchen will be finished. Got up early to wave Angelique off on her way to Grahamstown in misty and drizzly conditions. Quick breakfast and hop on the bicycle for a quick 24 km spin.

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Cycling

All these hassles with the kitchen has played havoc with our training schedule, perhaps just as well because I think we were overdoing it just a little. Friday night I consulted windguru and the wind direction and strength seemed to be ideal to to the Marine Drive circuit clockwise, not our usual direction. And so

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At last :-)

Today the kitchen was finished, of course now the tile-less walls stand out accusingly and it will not really look finished until that is done. I got up early to install the piping for the drains on the sink because I wanted to finish that before they arrived. Ha ha, I never learn, I was

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Kitchen cntnd..

Note to self, don’t blog when you are really tired like yesterday, it was a very random entry with lots of omissions and garbled points I think. At least it was something. This is how I felt, not pretty. Today was back to the harsh reality of the kitchen, at least my sms’s and phonecalls

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Longest ride

Not much to report today really, started off on a good breakfast of fried eggs then got into cycling gear and thanks to the really useful www.windguru.com decided to do the Maitland circuit anticlockwise so we had the breeze in our backs all the way from Maitland to Mount Pleasant. I don’t know if it

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Wild west

To our horror Ellie discovered last night that the melted butter in her frying pan was running to one side. Verdict: new kitchen top not level. Of course we pointed this out to Vernon this morning and all hell broke lose, the installer of the granite was called and accusations, threats and shouting ensued with

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A tiring day

Quite a day, first of all we only got to bed close to midnight after a very good show by Robin Auld at the Uptown theatre and then watch the tail end of Arsenal beating Liverpool so to get up at six for our cycle run was a bit hard. In fact, looking at the

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