Well I found a mystery partially crushed olive on the window sill in the kitchen - now me and Al have puzzeled over this - surely it is the one from the 'sink disastor' but how did it get there? It was undernieth stuff from before mum and dad came to visit! - roll on music from Fortean TV.
There there was the watering can - Babara kept asking me if it was difficult for me to fill the watering can up - I kept saying I always refilled it after use - this carried on with her getting annoyed that she had even given me a hose and I still hadnt bothered to refill and me getting really annoyed that she had obviouslly forgotten to refill it and then kept blaming me! However, it turns out that the watering can happened to have a slow leak! So it was fine if used shortly after being filled but not if left for any amount of time!
Well this week dad was supposed to be working on Jeans 'real' cot but what with the flood and all it hasnt been finished. This has not been helped by the fact that he had lost my original design and there was a few techniqual things we had to sort out - like how to put it together in a safe non wobbly way! Also we had to by a router which still doesnt go deep enough for the female part of the joint therefore progress has slowed dramaticallt as dad finishes the joints of with chisels and Als rubber mallet - this is time consuming and difficult to make neat but dad is doing a fantastic job as always!
Al also saved me and dad from a headache earlier in the week by knowing of a special bolt thing neither me nor dad had come across before - called tee nuts - these are lots of fun!
This cot is going to be Jeans first bed to which is one of the special design features along with sides you can drop so I can get her in and out of the cot without hurting my back! Yes yes it should have been ready about a month ago but what with me being ill and the move Dad hasnt had a chance - still Jean has her travel cot which is fine - I would just like her to be in the nice cot I designed!
The house now smells faintly of damp dog disturbingly though not suprisingly 🙁 - we are hoping that it will all be ok. We've had fan heaters on (though on fan rather than heat! as its been a scorcher) they dont seem that effective which is a bit depressing when you work out the cost in electricity and start to think of the environment :'(
On the plus side I have the kitching table back and have temperaroly stoed all the tins and cartons that were on the floor of the ladder cupboard. The house is still in complete disarray though much to the horror of Al's Step Mother Lynne who is visiting us at the moment. She was expecting to see a great improvement on the choas of boxes she left me with in September but lo!
Sigh - this place is never going to be straight at this rate!
p.s. we cant take the carpet up to dry it as that would involve ripping all the kitchen cabinets out hence our desperation for it to dry otherwise I might just cry!
Well day two has ended and the hoouse is still in disarray - the larder was a bit more flooded than I realised sigh!
But still the carpet no longer squealches when walked on and only feels damp to the touch, we have fan heaters going to try and sort out the rest but I think we may soon be visited by the carpet mushrooms 🙁 Still we needed to clean the carpet and it is now very clean, plus I wanted the Ladder racks sorted and its getting there - may even get the supports for the other two selves made soon! (the ladder racks is a cool modular cabinet thing that had more selves than supports to put them on the frame work so Al has been steadily making supports).
Jean thinks this is all great - she's been having lots of adventures and even has her own 'boat'!
Opps this was supposed to go live yesturday but I stupidly hit save instead of publish - sigh - silly Sarah.
Well the dishwasher wasnt working and we kept getting misterious wet patches - obviously the dishwasher - again right? Wrong!
No some idiot in the past had failed to put an olive on the compression joint under the sink - Dad (mum and dad are staying with us this week) said 'oh whys it dripping from there when the problems the dishwasher' touched the joint and bam wam thankyou mame we have flood time as the joint falls to peices and we play hunt the stop cock.
Finding the stop cock eventually after the down stairs is a river/me stupidly forgetting where the stop cock was ie the sensible place behind the freezer that fits in ;ike a cupboard - mass movement of much furniture had to ensue before we could get to the stop cock.
Fearing dad would give himself another heart attack I have currently sent him out with Babara to get water sucky up things 🙁 More money litteraly down the drain! Hehehe a bad pun I know!
The ladder cupboard in under an inch of water so I had to rescue the 20kg bag of rice - I hurt lots - physio will kill me - oh well best get back to the mopping I supoose!
Again disaster stricks on the day Al is away on long journey ;(
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Building Maintenance, Gardening | sarah | 
Thu 15th Jun 2006 9:44 am | 
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