Travelling On

earthgirl

Do you buy the garden pod?
Hoep your house gets back to being yours soon!

Karmacat

beanielou wrote: »

I had riggers gloves in my other life.
Loved loved them.
They were red.

Ooh! I've only ever seen blue suede, with a bit of material around the knuckles that's red. Me likee the idea of red

apple_muncher wrote: »

Sounds like a perfect trip out.
Glad you escaped the alpaca'a attempt to take you over... Just imagine what design decisions that would have entailed...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I can imagine a lot of hay there are enough alpacas locally that there were classes in the judging, this one was "white females over 3 years of age". Amazing. The show was great, there were sheep, goats (adorable!!!), pigs, chickens, rabbits, and even cows. No horses, unsurprisingly (very loud in the barn) and I *was* surprised that there were no donkeys, as I saw some at this place a couple of years ago. There were a couple of portable forges and a chainsaw sculptor too. Bliss.

Karmacat

greent wrote: »

If you can't find anything on W*ckes, N*xt lights aren't bad, if any appeal to you. JLew1s, too - but rather more £££ouch! (most of ours come from 1kea! ) x

Oh! Next and Ikea are really good ideas, I agree about JL being a bit ouchy. At the time, I was just desperate for the fitment, but if things are in stock, delivery seems fast these days.

earthgirl wrote: »

Do you buy the garden pod?
Hoep your house gets back to being yours soon!

No,didn't buy it,earthie,too big an investment without being absolutely sure where to put it. The house is taking up my thinking brain completely, at the moment, I can't make garden decisions other than "dig up that weed". Thanks for the wishes on the house

Karmacat

So today, I thought that what has happened might happen, so I'm ready - a builder guy turned up without my prior knowledge. Luckily, because I didn't believe it wouldn't happen (so to speak :rotfl:) I was ready. He's building the cabinets :j:j:j though the plaster still isn't dry, so he has to park them around the room.

I'm going to stay on the computer a bit longer, then get going after brekkie is digested. I'll check out delivery systems on Ikea and Next and have a look at their ranges




ETA: nothing there that was similar to the upside-down tealight I'd really set my heart on so I *did* check out JL - they have this, very similar and *three* times the price https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-presta-led-semi-flush-ceiling-light-chrome/p1871212 I'm so not going there So I hotfooted it to Wickes, and found my LED tealights with a bit of bling, perfect :rotfl:https://www.wickes.co.uk/Eglo-Fradelo-LED-Chrome+Crystal-Rectangular+Hoop-Flush-Ceiling-Light---3-x-4W/p/164904. Thank you all for staying with me through this saga.

teapot2

Country show sounds fab and a welcome change for the house thinking brain :cool:

Well done on expecting the unexpected builder as well :eek: Have a good day.

Karmacat

Thanks teapot! Yes, it was a very welcome change of pace - something I really love.

Just paid the builder a 25% interim payment, that's fine, and asked him for a schedule for this week, as I'm off caravanning next week, I've realised.

That gave me a chance to check what I've actually paid B&Q. Haven't checked my credit card yet, and I think I used that for the online purchase, but at the moment my current account is showing a debit of £140 (the sink and its fittings) and a credit of £35 (for the non existent light). If there's nothing on the credit cards, I think we should just draw a line underneath all that, not that I'll get in touch with them to say so :rotfl:

apple_muncher

My MIL used to have llamas and goats. And a ranch!


Upside-down tea lights just sound like a recipe for disaster to me - I like my lights 'the right way up'!


Hope you get good weather for caravanning.

Karmacat

apple_muncher wrote: »

My MIL used to have llamas and goats. And a ranch!

I'm definitely envious of that, apple! We went llama walking last year on my sister's Big Birthday, so that was good - most alpaca/llama farms round here do some form of it.

Upside-down tea lights just sound like a recipe for disaster to me - I like my lights 'the right way up'!

They're LED lights honestly!

Hope you get good weather for caravanning.

I might take an extra layer - I'm a bit nesh compared to my sister As long as we don't end up glowing - we've got tickets booked to tour a nuclear power station :rotfl:

Builder is doing as much work as he can, it's all looking really nice

rtandon27

KC - well done on being prepared for the expected unexpected!:D

Karmacat

Thanks RT The carcasses of the floor units are all made up and screwed to the wall! And where there's enough dry plaster, there's a couple of wall units on too
:j:j:j
I don't want to sit around all day on the computer (doing anything is hard, because there's no space, and I don't really know where anything is) but this morning I was at least tidying the top of my chest of drawers, which had got very "bitty" anyway, so that felt good.

It's raining *heavily* right now, so I can't do anything in the garden without getting soaked, though I did take some of the cardboard packaging of the units for the garden And I really think it might be time for me to start cleaning upstairs, I think that might be safe. Amazing stuff.