Moving house
February 8th 2008 07:29
I’ve been out of circulation on the blog scene for a week or two because of major upheavals at our house. We’re carpeting the place and it’s taking us all our time trying to get the old carpet up and all the staples and nails and stuff out of the floor. Night after night and all weekend for several weeks in a row. On Waitangi Day, the national holiday, we spent all day working, and both of us were shot the next day.
On top of this, my daughter and her young son moved in upstairs (where we’d already got the carpeting and renovation done) and that meant moving stuff upstairs and getting it in the right places and so on.
Meanwhile downstairs is chaos, the sort of chaos that nearly drives you batty. Both of us have had our moments in regard to it. At the moment I’m sitting in my ‘office’ and it’s almost empty. Most of the stuff that normally resides in here is shifted into space where carpetting isn’t going to go – and there’s not much of that.
And it’s not all over yet: the first lot of carpetting goes down on Tuesday, in this room, a big lounge, the stairs and the hallway. The remaining rooms will have to be emptied out over the next week, which sounds like a major disaster time.
We’ll get there, but sanity may not prevail!
On top of this, my daughter and her young son moved in upstairs (where we’d already got the carpeting and renovation done) and that meant moving stuff upstairs and getting it in the right places and so on.
Meanwhile downstairs is chaos, the sort of chaos that nearly drives you batty. Both of us have had our moments in regard to it. At the moment I’m sitting in my ‘office’ and it’s almost empty. Most of the stuff that normally resides in here is shifted into space where carpetting isn’t going to go – and there’s not much of that.
And it’s not all over yet: the first lot of carpetting goes down on Tuesday, in this room, a big lounge, the stairs and the hallway. The remaining rooms will have to be emptied out over the next week, which sounds like a major disaster time.
We’ll get there, but sanity may not prevail!
This isn't us laying carpet: it comes courtesy of Pattie 74_99 on flickr.com
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