A half-empty room . . .

 

It's arrived.  The lads were very helpful, and took the old one away.  Best £15 I'd ever spent (though the fridge-freezer cost a lot more!)  I had to leave it two hours before plugging in and I have now got the frozen stuff I kept here put away again.  Ed and Pam have a drawer each of my contents, so I will sort that out on Thursday. This has a 2 year guarantee, and then a further 8 on parts.

Now, there's posh!  I am actually impressed with it, as it is a lot better designed internally so I have as much room as the old fridge in some ways, only better configured.  The 3 drawer freezer is better too, as I can have meat, veg and fruit in separate drawers.  It even has a water cooler, which will be welcome in this weather.

Now I am absolutely bushed, having taken all the stock and stuff out of the Utility, and have just been putting it all back again, much more neatly.  I don't have the energy to water round in the yard right now, and don't even have the energy to go upstairs for a shower.  I will just sit and start another book.  

Tomorrow is going to be hectic as I have the dentist in Llandovery, have to go to Carmarthen to get my camera looked at as it still won't turn on, and pop up to see other Pam, and then with any luck, an hour or so at my quilt group.  "Heatwave" quilt is coming on really well and I think I just have another 2 big blocks to do (16 blocks in the big one).  Then in the evening Sam is coming round to watch the football here.  I'm quite looking forward to that.

Anyway, I am glad that is done and dusted and I don't have to try and get rid of the old fridge-freezer.  Btw, that had been a top of the range one when we bought it, and if I had wanted to replace like with like, I would have had to cough up £2,000!!!  This was a darn sight cheaper :)  It's a Haier.

Swings and roundabouts

 I have had to order a new fridge-freezer, as the freezer is now starting to fail.  Well, I have had my money's worth out of it (20, possibly 25, years).  It was a top of the range one at the time too, but to replace like with like now, I would be coughing up £2,000.  I don't think so!  I've had to compromise and spend a quarter of that.  I am grateful I have the savings as a buffer to pay for this, but want to try and replace it when I can.  I had a little windfall from the Electricity Board, my Wayleave payment for having one of their poles on my land.  But that is swallowed up (and more) straight away by having to pay £40 to the plumber and £40 to the Carpenter for repairing the little Windsor chair.  Ah well, such is life.  However, in clearing the top of the fridge-freezer, I found a bag with two knives in.  One was Danny's, which Keith had had made for him, and the other was one I had forgotten all about, one Keith had bought at a Fair and stowed away.  That will go and be offered for sale now.  

Well, the Utility hasn't been this tidy for a long while . . .  A purely temporary state of affairs, as what came out this afternoon will all go back, more neatly, when the new fridge-freezer is installed.

So, a busy day.  I took some meat from the freezer across to Pam's who has space in hers.  Some more stuff will go to my neighbour Ed, and I went out and bought a cool box - having given Tam the old one.  Wrong move!

First thing I sewed up some more 16 block "big blocks", so progress there.  Then when I get back I have to do family history research as Tam has someone in Yorkshire, who will do archive look ups for us.

Off to pick up the little Windsor chair now.