Another day where Lois and I feel in a complete limbo. Several important things are supposed to happen today: a painter, a plumber, an electrician and a handyman are due to be coming to fix the defects we've reported on our new-build home. Plus, we're expecting delivery of possible 2 wall-cabinets and a set of coat hooks.
The upshot is that today we can't do anything much except wait for that next ring of the door-bell - damn!!!! A lot of the above happens as promised, though, luckily, which makes the waiting all worth while. The painter doesn't come, however, and we only get 1 wall-cabinet instead of 2, and no set of coat hooks, so I suppose it could be worse, looking on the bright side!
The best thing today is the delivery of, and installation of, the larger-size heated towel rail we asked for, to replace the smaller-size one that they gave us "by mistake". So now we can really spread our "stuff" around for when we're washing or showering. What luxury !!!!!
our new, larger, heated towel rail
All right, I know it isn't a massive one, but it's twice the size of the one they gave us initially in error, so it SEEMS gigantic haha!
This IS what we call "elegant living" haha!!!!
Tonight's going to be busy because tomorrow our handyman friend Stephen is coming from Cheltenham to fix us up some shelving in our larder, and hopefully do a couple of other jobs. So tonight Lois and I are going to have to somehow empty the larder and stack the contents up in our kitchen/diner, which is much more work than it sounds, as you'd know if you'd SEEN our larder.
If you haven't seen it, now's your chance. I'm sure you're gagging to see it haha!
our larder - the so-called "south end" - mostly food,
which is the classic larder content after all...
...and the controversial "north end", with its
jumble of non-larder miscellanea
Yikes! We'll be tired when we get to bed tonight - no doubt about that haha!!!! We should sleep well haha!!!!
21:00 We go to bed on "The Mistress", a repeat of the first episode of a 1980's sitcom about an affair, starring Felicity Kendal as Maxine, the mistress, and Jane Asher as Helen, the wife.
We don't remember this series from 1985. In the summer of '85, we had just moved back to England after 3 years in the States, and it took us a while to tune back in to life in the UK, and, to be hones, that period is all a bit of a blur to me now. Oh dear!
In "The Mistress", Luke, the man in the love triangle (played by Jack Galloway), seems to having a pretty good time - when he comes out of work he has dinner with his mistress Maxine, followed by yoghurt and banana, usually with a bit of time in bed between the yoghurt and the banana, according to what Maxine tells her friend Jenny.
Luke, home from work, is greeted by his mistress Maxine
Maxine serves Luke his first dinner, with a promise of
something afterwards - what madness !!!!!
And after that Luke goes home and has another dinner with his wife Helen. He's the original "Two Dinners". Yes, he's Luke "Two Dinners" Carpenter: that's what Lois and I find ourselves calling him haha!
What a crazy world they lived in, back in those far-off 1980's !!!!!
The subject-matter of "The Mistress" was quite ground-breaking at the time, and apparently a lot of viewers didn't take kindly to seeing the much-loved Felicity Kendal, who normally played sweet, innocent women, playing the part of a woman who was sleeping with a married man.
The series was written by Carla Lane, writer of the "Butterflies" sitcom, which also dealt with the issue of marital infidelity, although the affair in "Butterflies", apart from a few lunch dates, really existed mainly in bored housewife Ria's head.
sitcom "Butterflies" : bored housewife Ria chatting with her would-be lover Leonard
in Pittville Park, Cheltenham: "The Mistress" was filmed in Bath.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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