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Showing posts with label Plumber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plumber. Show all posts

Monday 11 May 2020

Lighting Up A Monday!

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all - Sir Winston Churchill
Welcome abroad to my tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
 The wind has got up and it feels cold.
Time to get warmed up with hug and a cup of tea↓
 I wasn't going to risk the skirt being blown up by the gale force winds outside while going for my daily walk.
Sexy Beast Time!
 It's not very warm↓
 Back to work, hubby goes.
 I put out the 3 baskets of wet washing on the line.As with this wind, it should be dry by the end of the day.
Has a quick look in the newspaper↓
 Les Chadwick, English bassist (Gerry and the Pacemakers).He would have been 77 years old.🎈
He died in Sydney on 26 December 2019, from brain cancer.
    I caught up with yesterday's blog.
Then it's play time with Kenny↓
 
 
 The Plumber from the council arrived to do the annual check on the 14 year old boiler.
He couldn't understand why I had a plastic box  under the boiler.He said he couldn't find a leak on it.
Funny that, the box was half full of water from somewhere!
"You are not supposed to use the top half of the airing cupboard to store clothes,"He said.
I replied to that comment:
"Not since the leak ruined 3 bags of bed linen again in December. I have 4 ottomens full of bed linen in my bedroom.It didn't help the council going back on their promise of replacing the 14 year old boiler in December."
He was attempting to remove the green splash guard to get to look at the oven.
I told him the splash guard is firmly stuck to the wall.The cooker does have a chain to it!
I asked if everything was alright and he said yes as he handed me the Landlord's Gas Safety Record.
I looked at the details of any faults:
1:No fire stop on flue.
2:1 Flex& 1 lead on meter.
3:Hole around gas pipe needs compling in.
Is what he wrote.
Nothing was filled in the remedial action taken box! 
He left, complete with face mask and gloves.
Light lunch time↓ 
 The carrot cake has been done↓
 Tea Break↓
 The woman who delivered my Amazon order, really liked my Wisteria↓
The shelf gets put up on the wall↓
We was going to put up a pan shelf I got from my late dad's house. It didn't come with no screws.When I did find some suitable screws. I didn't have no bigger raw plugs to put in the wall.Back onto Amazon to get the screws and wall plugs.
That what I miss not having my dad around anymore, he would always have little bits and bobs I could do with :(
 We watched Boris↓
 Meat Free Stir Fry↓
 Off to work I go↓
 With some good music↓
 Back home and its not quite dark↓
 The Windmill lights up↓
 The lights work as well↓
 I had a nice hot shower.
Cup of Sleep Tea.
Then off to a really warm bed with a even warmer hubby!
 

 
 

Saturday 3 August 2019

Party In The Airing Cupboard

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it - Evan Esar
Welcome to my Saturday.
Such a big lie-in, I missed "Sounds of the 60s" :(
(I will catch up later with it)  
We have the plumber returning this morning to fit the part to our 13 year old boiler.
As from Wednesday, we have had no hot water....
Plenty of water gun fights outside instead of showering..
 When we got up,
We enjoyed toast and coffee..
 While waiting for the Plumber.
I put a second coat of paint on my big 1960s unit..↓
(It's not orange no more!)
&
Changed the colour of my other unit too.
(It's not blue anymore)
As normal, run out of paint!
 
I had Alexa booming out the 60s hits from the kitchen, when the Plumbers arrived to fit the new part.
One Plumber said:
"We are having a party in your Airing cupboard!"
I replied,"I already have the music, just to need fit the glitter ball!." 
After an hour they had done the job!
Hot water is back...
Woo Hoo! 
Hubby had came back from dads, he had installed his new microwave...As the old one started to smoke!
Back to tidying up our youngest son's bedroom.
He has had that room for the last 6 years.
I can see he has inherited my hoarding skills ;)
 One of my kids has mastered crochet↑
 Light lunch with coffee↑↓
 At 8pm, it was time to leave alone our son's bedroom..
We had tea.
Then to catch up with more Louis:
&
with part 2.
It was coming up to midnight......
Time to enjoy the hubby a bit more ;)