What a day! Lois and I had to jump out of bed before 7 am, to be ready for the electric fire guy who's driving up from Bournemouth this morning - he said he'd be arriving here at 8 am, but he actually rang our doorbell at 7:45 am, as we half expected. But he did the job super fast, and got out of the door after less than an hour, which is the way we like it!
a cosy evening is in prospect or Lois and me with
our shiny new wall-mounted electric fire!
What luxury!!!! And what privacy at last haha!!!!
Stephen also installed a house number plate outside under the exterior light, so we can tomorrow take down the stick-on ones that I put up when we first arrived here on Halloween.
Another triumph today was to speak to our new doctor for the first time on a telephone consultation. We get her to authorise the repeat prescriptions for our medications. We've nearly run out so we'll stop by the surgery's pharmacy tomorrow to get another 2 months' worth, and then drive over to Tewkesbury to try and get bank staff to remove the lock from Lois's church bank account, which was implemented after she put in the the wrong pin number a few times. What a crazy world we live in !!!!!!
our suddenly cosy bedroom with its shiny new window blinds - lovely !!!!
09:00 Alone at last, but unfortunately we can't relax yet - our handyman young friend from Cheltenham, Stephen, is coming to put some shelves in our so-called airing-cupboard, and then check was other jobs we need doing round the house to make it a civilised place with all the storage we need - shelves, cupboards, you know the kind of thing - you've probably got some in your house, I wouldn't be surprised to hear. But this is a new-build home, and the builders haven't bothered to equip us with that kind of thing. What madness!
It's nice that Stephen has his own ideas and suggestions for improving the house's storage rating - which is currently at zero. So he's talking to us virtually all day with questions and ideas. His help, labour and skills are going to be so useful, but, to tell the truth, by the time Stephen leaves for home at 5 pm, Lois and I feel absolutely exhausted by his non-stop, irrepressible brainstorming. But at least he's left us with an airing cupboard now with three deep shelves instead of just the one shelf that the builders installed.
our airing cupboard, now with 3 capacious shelves, which is nice!
a warm welcome awaits you if you ever visit us
- just look for the number under the welcoming exterior light haha!
18:00 It's dark now, and we know that there are going to be some cold nights ahead.
We'll be all right in bed because of our electric blanket, but we want to be warm in the evenings as well, so we decide to work out how to work our shiny new wall-mounted electric fire.
Suddenly we realise why the guy who fitted the fire early this morning was so eager to escape so quickly, leaving no time for us to try out the fire or to examine the instructions.
When we look at the instructions there is much anger. It's yet another set of instructions written by a foreigner, and then either translated into English by somebody who doesn't speak English, or else translated by a poorly programmed computer.
an extract from the instructions for our shiny new wall-mounted electric fire
- what madness !!!!!
What a crazy world we live in! [That's enough craziness! - Ed]
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