Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Renovation and clearing clutter - that's our sport.
Downstairs is in the middle of a revamp!
The kitchen is now complete.
Today, first, it was the turn of the cupboard under the stairs. There can't be many souls who don't tend to just throw things in and shut the door.
Today Bill pulled it all out and we could see that we had a surplus of many things.
Just how many pairs of gloves and scarves do even cold hands and necks need?
How many shopping bags could one carry at the same time?
It was time to concentrate on the things we really need.
But before things could go back, Bill decided to carpet the cupboard under the stairs! We have carpet tiles now doing nothing - the ones that had been used in the kitchen/dining room.
Carpet was fine - but Bill, don't waste time and money on painting the walls.
Does everybody gather lots of different cleaning products?
The garden full of the necessary and the unnecessary.
The old bread bin had been my mother's and that remains necessary in my book, although I do not use it for bread.
Small time carpet fitter.
Tidy cupboard - with shelves at the end.
The kitchen is now complete.
Today, first, it was the turn of the cupboard under the stairs. There can't be many souls who don't tend to just throw things in and shut the door.
Today Bill pulled it all out and we could see that we had a surplus of many things.
Just how many pairs of gloves and scarves do even cold hands and necks need?
How many shopping bags could one carry at the same time?
It was time to concentrate on the things we really need.
But before things could go back, Bill decided to carpet the cupboard under the stairs! We have carpet tiles now doing nothing - the ones that had been used in the kitchen/dining room.
Carpet was fine - but Bill, don't waste time and money on painting the walls.
Does everybody gather lots of different cleaning products?
The garden full of the necessary and the unnecessary.
The old bread bin had been my mother's and that remains necessary in my book, although I do not use it for bread.
Small time carpet fitter.
Tidy cupboard - with shelves at the end.
And here is a view of the dining room end of the kitchen, which serves as my office too.
This afternoon, as 22 men kicked a ball around in South Africa, our attention turned to the lounge.
The new carpet will be laid next Wednesday.
Help! There is so much to move.
Our lounge has shelves all round the walls - full of books and things.
Everything will have to come off the shelves and be put in boxes.
This gives another opportunity to decide if we really need all of it for the rest of our days.
We have two boxes of books to take to the Oxfam book shop in Littlehampton tomorrow and lots of other things for the local hospice shop.
And this is only the beginning.
And yes Bill - you can wield the paintbrush on the lounge walls.
I described some maps today for EBay. They are printed on a satin like fabric and were issued by the war office in the 1950s. They would appear never to have been unfolded by any service man - straight out of the stores and into a box. I know so little about them - was not sure where to pitch the opening bid.
No watchers as yet - but these are not days for too much EBay browsing.
Lots of sunshine and lots of sport days.
Of course I am glad that our footballing English men just about came good.Their standard of play was better - and they proceed to the next round.
The defeated Slovenia almost made it through too.
It saddened me that the USA scored right at the end of the other match - because that knocked Slovenia out.
That must sound like meaningless nonsense to somebody who doesn't follow the world cup.
Then there has been tennis.
We left a match with the players at 34 all in the final set.
Wow, we thought - that is incredible.
They played on for 3 more hours and play was suspended when it got dark when the score was 59 games to each player.
We didn't see the evening's play. We were involved with sport for ourselves. We have been timekeeping for a Crawley Athletics Club Open meeting. It was very pleasant and relaxed.
Tomorrow we are looking forward to some time out - off to the car boot sale at Ford.
I am sure we will have breakfast in Littlehampton, but we have talked of the possibility of a walk on Cissbury Hill afterwards.
Time for a cuppa and bed. Goodnight.
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