Coming Along

Another weekend gone.  I hope you all remembered to change your clocks.  I do not care much for it being dark around 5 p.m.

Well, him indoors has been hard at work over the last couple of days, bless him.  He has still got such a bad cold/bug whatever it is.  Mine has improved a lot but not gone completely.  Anyway he soldiered on as he wanted to get on with the kitchen. 

As I said in a previous entry, we had a dresser in one corner so our kitchen never truly matched.  A pine dresser with grey work surfaces and tiles never did sit easy with me.  However, it was here when we came, the previous owner left it and it was handy for all our china. Although it looked better with the new surfaces, him indoors was still not happy and decided he wanted to build something that would blend in totally.

Here is what we had:-

Here is what we now have:-

Plenty of shelf space, a surface that matches all the others. This is how it looks with the doors closed:-

We have, at the moment, only one problem.  Mike has been unable to find knobs that remotely match what we already have.  I suppose it was to be expected bearing in mind that our current ones have been there years.  So, it might mean having to replace all the knobs - all twenty-six of them which is something we had not bargained for!  He is going to have another hunt, we might strike lucky yet.

Next weekend the new cooker is going in.  I have mixed feelings.  I am happy to have a new cooker of course, but all my life I have cooked with gas.  This new one is electric and I am going to have to adapt to that and learn all the temperatures.  I suppose it is what you are used to and with gas prices the way that they are, we might be slightly better off with the bills.  I still have my gas hob.  So next Saturday, the electrics will be off for most of the day.  Oh, what will I do without my computer!!!!  However, it will be worth it because then the kitchen will actually be finished.

Now we can actually start putting things back in the kitchen, everything has had to be stored in other rooms and when you live in a small bungalow that is no joke.

I was so pleased over the weekend. I had a contact from Friends Re-United.  A lot of the girls I remember from school do not appear on that site and others that do I only knew vaguely.  I was so happy then to hear from Doreen B.  We went to the same schools and were in the same classes from the age of five until we left school at almost seventeen.  Imagine how stunned I was to find out that for many years, she has been living quite close to me!!  Well, only about twenty minutes drive away.  Hopefully we can meet when we have finished doing what we need to do to our home.  She remembered my Mother's Pekingese dog, our family home and talked about the school plays.  She was a good friend of mine and I am so happy to be in contact with her again after so very many years.  She has just become a grandmother and has already sent me her picture (I would still have known her) and she is in the photo with her daughter and beautiful Grand-daughter.  I have been a member of Friends for several years and, after all this time, I never expected this.

Well, I have some mirrors and other glass to clean, so I had better get off here and do something to show willing as him indoors is busy putting everything back in the kitchen and it is making me feel guilty (well just a little)

Wishing you all a good week.