Travelling On

shangaijimmy

We've been having kitchen discussions too. Mrs SJ seems as if she has plans afoot in the not too distant future. My plan was once the mortgage has been paid off....hmm...how do i tactfully approach this one!!

teapot2

Glad the kitchen planning meeting went well, sounds like it was helpful and positive with some useful suggestions :j

Another step along the way to a new kitchen :cool:

apple_muncher

Good to hear that the Wickes man wasn't too sales-y, and had some good advice. Well done on doing your research and asking those questions

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Karmacat wrote: »

OMG, CBC, I couldn't do that in a million years :rotfl::kisses3:

Partly because they're all still being party-political and point scoring, partly because I think that there genuinely is no concensus about what's wanted.

Can I beg, from the bottom of my heart, for us *not* to discuss Brexit pro and con on this thread? CBC isn't doing that, just echoing my news-following, but if people start discussing Brexit on here, I will literally have to start a new diary :o:o that's how problematic it is to me. Sorry for bringing it in!

You have my sacred word, KC, that I will never discuss the machinations of Brexit or my own political leanings in relation to it either here or on anybody else's diary or even my own. Your current diary is totally safe:beer:


I don't even discuss those things with 'real' people now either. Everyone is heartily sick of it by now and the disparity of opinion even among my own small circle shows that consensus appears to be an unattainable dream.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, glad the kitchen visit went well! :j And that he can put you in touch with a plasterer/builder too. Good progress!

What's on the cards for today? The sun's shining here and we've had a light dusting of snow and it's FREEZING but very nice to look at out of the window

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Karmacat wrote: »

Evening all! I rested for most of the afternoon before the kitchen bloke turned up - it went really well, I have to say! He wanted to make recommendations, I wanted to tell him my wish list, we were able to do both

One really good bit is that I thought I'd have to have the worktop extended outwards to cover the dw and wm fully - turns out that when I have the plugs moved so that they're accessible, there'll be more room at the back of them, so they'll go right under the counter.


Currently, those two appliances sit side by side - he suggested splitting them, which sounded weird to me at first, but then he explained that replacing one with a cupboard would give the work surface above more support - and its true, it kind of bounces if you have something hard you're cutting.

Quote will come in a few days, he'll put me in touch with a builder/ fitter who'll quote for the chimney piece, plastering, and ceiling. Hurray! And I'm so glad I cleared and cleaned the work surfaces - it was *extremely* necessary, it turns out

That sounds like a really fruitful meeting, KC, and well done for doing your initial research and being in a position to genuinely discuss your wants and needs instead of merely hearing about what he wanted to sell you:T. All sounding good:beer:


Your comment about being glad you cleaned and cleared relevant areas gave me cause for a rueful smile. A couple of times (well. probably more than a couple if I'm honest:o) I've not been as thorough about doing that as I should. When the repair man/electrician or whoever has needed to pull out or move something I hadn't bargained for (or cleaned behind:o)and I've apologised about the mess etc they've invariably responded by saying something like ''don't worry about it, I've seen worse than that''. Somehow it never makes me feel any better:eek:

Karmacat

Teapot, Apple, thank you it feels amazing to get it moving forward.

shangaijimmy wrote: »

We've been having kitchen discussions too. Mrs SJ seems as if she has plans afoot in the not too distant future. My plan was once the mortgage has been paid off....hmm...how do i tactfully approach this one!!

Norty Jimmy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What I've realised is that at a certain point, if you're going to be able to use the space you'e got, money *has* to be spent on it. Plaster thats falling off, plugs that don't work, oven thats broken and too big anyway, I'm not going to live with that forever if I don't *have* to. And I don't have to. And neither does Mrs SJ, by the way :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: as I'm sure she'll tell you :kisses3:

carbootcrazy wrote: »

You have my sacred word, KC, that I will never discuss the machinations of Brexit or my own political leanings in relation to it either here or on anybody else's diary or even my own. Your current diary is totally safe:beer:
I don't even discuss those things with 'real' people now either. Everyone is heartily sick of it by now and the disparity of opinion even among my own small circle shows that consensus appears to be an unattainable dream.

Aww CBC thanks! It wasn't aimed at you, honestly, and *I* was the first to mention it - the lack of concensus is horrifying, isn't it. I have opinions, of course, but debating them is an absolute nightmare.

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Ooh, glad the kitchen visit went well! :j And that he can put you in touch with a plasterer/builder too. Good progress!

Thanks Cheery - yes, he can, fortunately, especially necessary since I've been let down by two builders since I moved here - both family firms, but the level of work was atrocious - I haven't got round to having it fixed yet (this is the external doors, in particular) but it will all need to be redone.

What's on the cards for today? The sun's shining here and we've had a light dusting of snow and it's FREEZING but very nice to look at out of the window

Oh wow! My weather app showed a 1% chance of snow, so I don't think we're going to get any down here :rotfl: it's just raining, grrr!


And the tasks for today:
- finish off the French figures for the English accounts
- buy the *last* Sun newspaper and work out how to apply for the caravan spaces needed. Got to check that with my sister first, and she's travelling home right now (from visiting the Tesla ) so that will finish up quite late.
- wm and dw.
- rubbish and recycling out.
- I really need to contact my colleague and my Glasto friend, but with all the stuff thats been going on, I'm very low on phone energy. But it *has* to be phone, to arrange dates for a visit. I'll work at it, I *need* to do it.


There's also endless cleaning and gardening to do, of course :rotfl: and the gardening is preferable to a lot of that list, I guarantee

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

That sounds like a really fruitful meeting, KC, and well done for doing your initial research and being in a position to genuinely discuss your wants and needs instead of merely hearing about what he wanted to sell you:T.

Thanks! Thats exactly what I was going for.

Your comment about being glad you cleaned and cleared relevant areas gave me cause for a rueful smile. A couple of times (well. probably more than a couple if I'm honest:o) I've not been as thorough about doing that as I should. When the repair man/electrician or whoever has needed to pull out or move something I hadn't bargained for (or cleaned behind:o)and I've apologised about the mess etc they've invariably responded by saying something like ''don't worry about it, I've seen worse than that''. Somehow it never makes me feel any better:eek:

Yep, I've heard them say that in the past I did have a plumber once who commented he'd never seen an under-the-sink cupboard as tidy as mine :rotfl: and while I don't actually *like* mess, the reason it was comparatively tidy is that it was open to a whole load of wildlife at that stage

:eek:

Sorted now

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Karmacat wrote: »

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Yep, I've heard them say that in the past I did have a plumber once who commented he'd never seen an under-the-sink cupboard as tidy as mine :rotfl: and while I don't actually *like* mess, the reason it was comparatively tidy is that it was open to a whole load of wildlife at that stage

:eek:

Sorted now

Wildlife?????:eek:. The mind boggles:rotfl:

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Wildlife?????:eek:. The mind boggles:rotfl:

When you can see daylight from inside your cupboards, its not a good thing :rotfl: both walls of the cavity wall have now been insulated around the waste pipe, so its fine, but until then, a *lot* of those big spiders made their way inside. When I had rats, that cupboard smelt like the loft - I suspect we'll find rat droppings there when we take the cabinets out!


Anyway, hmrc seem to have accepted my figures :j Might even try the dividends today.

It was a year for very low maintenance charges, and without the mortgage, the apartment would have paid its way :j
Dishwasher is on.
Off now to get the Sun before it sells out ye gods I hate giving them money, but that caravan offer is awfully convenient for retired folks