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 […]
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
Well, safely back from two days geological sampling in the Steytlerville district in the company of these two mad characters. Don’t you feel sorry for me already? Angelique needs rock samples to study quartz intrusions into the rocks of the Cape fold belt mountains for her doctorate so we went on a collecting trip. Here
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TravelNot 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
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
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
Halleluja, at long last the kitchen got a step further with the installation of the counter tops. Edwil and his two assistants arrived at 10 and soon the driveway turned into a workshop to cut the holes for the sink and the hob. The four weighty slabs were carried up and laid out on top
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DIYToday must have been the hottest day of the year so far, close on 36 degrees C. Lucky I could spend most of the day in the garage where it was relatively cool. Yep, we were let down once again as the promised kitchen tops did not materialize, manjana, tomorrow. We will see. Lucky we
Today first a 23 km ride, hardly any wind, ideal to do the Seaview road, Chelsea, Montmedy circuit. The morning traffic is a hassle though, especially Circular Drive. After that got stuck into fixing the gutter, removing rooftiles, putting sticky flashing down, putting rooftiles back. Now if that rain only would come to test my