Then yesterday morning it had to all be reinstated, the drawers and cupboard contents put back in - though I had a cull of Granny C's glassware and washed it all and have put much of it in storage in the attic cupboards. Ready for when we "move". Yeah, like that is going to happen any time soon . . .
But if I thought the heavy lifting was over, when I came back from dropping Danny back at home in town, we realized there was another heavy lifting job - the 3 metre length of B&Q worktop which needed to be manhandled onto Keith's Workmate for cutting to length (and shape) and then taken up to the house. Well, that was a blardy struggle, I can tell you! I've just looked up the weight and they are 52 Kg - basically, a hundredweight. It felt like that too! A 2 man lift is a lot easier for two men than it is for an ageing bloke and his feeble wife!! Anyway, we managed, and though it took three attempts to get it cut exactly to fit (a little bit had to go into the corner abutting the draining board) we eventually did it, after traipsing backwards and forwards with it 3 times . . . It looks lovely - faux marble but it really looks like the real thing and is a great improvement on the worktop that was there before.
The Panny has a loaf in it as we were down to the last couple of slices of bread. Loading it up was my first job this morning - before I even had a cup of tea. The stoneware Dundee marmalade pots for the utensils are one of my little foibles, a nod to Tess of the D'Urbervilles who used one just like the oldest one on the left, as a vase with some flowers in on the grave of her dead son, Sorrow . . .
Right, this won't do. After going to a patchwork class yesterday afternoon, this morning I am off to my friend Dawn's to have my first proper lesson in lace making. Yippee!!
