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Nov. 14th, 2016 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsI was surprised to see it's been so long since I posted.
Things are going okay, just busy. We're decorating right now and for the last week or so I've been stripping the wallpaper from the hall, stairs and landing. As it's blown vinyl wallpaper covered in many years worth of paint it was coming off in tiny sharp shards at first. Then we got our hands on a wallpaper stripper and it's gone faster from then. Unfortunately I'm just an inch too short to reach the ceiling, even when standing on a step, so that top bit is taking longer than the rest of the wall put together. We bought long handled scrapers, but it still means stretching up to steam the spot and then scraping away, my neck aching all the time.
Then there was the cluster fuck with the bed last week. We'd bought a new super king size bed as the old one was well past its best. Corey used to sleep in it with us when he was a bairn, so that shows how old it was. Knowing how big the beds would be we paid extra for the old bed to be taken away and the new one set up. So the new bed arrived, the delivery men looked at the old one and said they wouldn't take it as the mattress had some stains and the divan scratched in places by the cats.
When James asked what we were supposed to do they said could we arrange for someone to come take the bed out, and they'd bring back the new bed later, but we'd have to pay another delivery on top of the first one. Which we said no to, so they left, and with James, I took ages wrestling the old bed downstairs where a local man with a van type picked it up and took it to the tip. We did get part of the delivery fee back, but that was wiped out by the man with the van.
What's annoying is if they'd said the mattress needed to be pristine to be moved or otherwise wrapped we would have done so, but they never did. But, at least the bed is in there now and very comfortable. At least for me, James says it's making his hips hurt, but I suspect that's because he's sleeping on an actual firm mattress now and not one that's gone soft with age.
In the last weeks we've also gone to Mog on the Tyne, the cat cafe, again, which was fabulous! And gone to see lots of movies, my favourite being A Streetcat Named Bob, which was amazing and everything I wanted in a film.
Mini nano is going well and I've hit my target each day. Though considering I only put down 100 daily words that's not hard to do. But, it does mean my bandom holidays story is going nicely and should be easily done in time.
Things are going okay, just busy. We're decorating right now and for the last week or so I've been stripping the wallpaper from the hall, stairs and landing. As it's blown vinyl wallpaper covered in many years worth of paint it was coming off in tiny sharp shards at first. Then we got our hands on a wallpaper stripper and it's gone faster from then. Unfortunately I'm just an inch too short to reach the ceiling, even when standing on a step, so that top bit is taking longer than the rest of the wall put together. We bought long handled scrapers, but it still means stretching up to steam the spot and then scraping away, my neck aching all the time.
Then there was the cluster fuck with the bed last week. We'd bought a new super king size bed as the old one was well past its best. Corey used to sleep in it with us when he was a bairn, so that shows how old it was. Knowing how big the beds would be we paid extra for the old bed to be taken away and the new one set up. So the new bed arrived, the delivery men looked at the old one and said they wouldn't take it as the mattress had some stains and the divan scratched in places by the cats.
When James asked what we were supposed to do they said could we arrange for someone to come take the bed out, and they'd bring back the new bed later, but we'd have to pay another delivery on top of the first one. Which we said no to, so they left, and with James, I took ages wrestling the old bed downstairs where a local man with a van type picked it up and took it to the tip. We did get part of the delivery fee back, but that was wiped out by the man with the van.
What's annoying is if they'd said the mattress needed to be pristine to be moved or otherwise wrapped we would have done so, but they never did. But, at least the bed is in there now and very comfortable. At least for me, James says it's making his hips hurt, but I suspect that's because he's sleeping on an actual firm mattress now and not one that's gone soft with age.
In the last weeks we've also gone to Mog on the Tyne, the cat cafe, again, which was fabulous! And gone to see lots of movies, my favourite being A Streetcat Named Bob, which was amazing and everything I wanted in a film.
Mini nano is going well and I've hit my target each day. Though considering I only put down 100 daily words that's not hard to do. But, it does mean my bandom holidays story is going nicely and should be easily done in time.
