Where have I been for two weeks?
This is the reason I’ve been feeling pressured by the blog-monster - I haven’t posted for two weeks. During the first week we were DIYing (putting up shelves to be precise). This may sound daft - you can’t possibly DIY 24/7. However, my Dad came up from Wales to put up the shelves for us and because this is the world’s most higgledy-piggledy house every shelf had to be precisely measured and hand-cut to fit the walls that curve off at random angles. He also plained all the doors so that they actually shut - guests can even lock the bathroom door now should they so choose! Obviously it would be incredibly rude to say thanks for all your hard work all day Dad - now you’ve stopped for a chat and a rest I’m off to play on my computer for a couple of hours, feel free to watch the telly.
I don’t know what we’d have done if Dad couldn’t have done this for us - there’s no cupboard space in the house and we were already fighting about tripping over each other’s clutter before Mark decided to buy a new drumkit. Since we have an abundance of alcoves the obvious answer was shelves, lots and lots of shelves. Unfortunately there isn’t a straight wall in the house and we knew it would require a highly skilled carpenter and joiner to makes shelves to fit. Fortunately, I happen to know an expert in the field, my Dad, who did a seven year apprenticeship in the days when tradesmen were properly trained to do the job and took pride in the quality of their workmanship. Our shelves are a work of art (not to mention geometry) so thanks Dad - we could never have done this by ourselves and I doubt if we could have afforded a suitably skilled carpenter even if we could have found one.
The second week we went to Norfolk on holiday and I was completely cut off from the digital world. All about that in further posts/webpages (when I get around to it).
THANKS AGAIN DAD!!