Tales from The Shire

wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »

Hope you sleep well too.

Hi Wishing. We are sleeping very well thank you. I'm doing over 10,000 steps easily every day which is helping. The house is long and narrow so you have to walk a fair distance just to get from the living room to the kitchen :rotfl: It will all help to keep me fit.

pinkypig wrote: »

Hi Fortune
That sounds so exciting! The very best of luck on your journey
PP x

Welcome Pinky and thank you.

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi Fortune! Oh my word, congratulations on the move and congratulations on sorting out so much already - lovely about the house sign, and important about the mailbox, but the homeliness and your own touches *inside* the house sound absolutely brilliant.

Always go with a nice glass of red

Yay Karma :hello:

Can't believe we've been in the house a fortnight tomorrow. There still seems so much to do. It is feeling a little more homely now though.

Fortune x

I survived the night No intruders and no ghosts

The beautiful fridge arrived yesterday. I love it. Much roomier than my last one and really efficient.

Tile Man came and cleaned up a couple of tiles so that I could see the effect. What a difference! The floor really is disgusting. It's the grout that's the problem. It's a dark brown colour and it's supposed to be white :eek: I had cleaned a bit previously to see whether I could do it myself and save some money. However, it took a very long time and I couldn't get the grout as clean as Tile Man could. He's going to seal the grout too so, although it's going to be a bit pricey, I think it's worth the investment. The budget is still holding so I'm going to go for it.

I cleaned the camping fridge so that it can be put away but didn't do the freezer as I don't need it just yet. The downstairs loo got put on hold too as I ran out of cleaning products :rotfl: It's on the list for today though as T£$co have just delivered and replenished the stocks. I think about 50% of my order this week was cleaning products :rotfl: I unpacked a few more boxes instead so some progress was made.

Today's purchases include a replacement stand for our small TV so that I can have that in the bedroom. I usually watch a little in bed when Mr F's away and set in on sleep timer so it switches itself off after I've nodded off. I find it a comfort when I'm on my own and I missed it last night. We had it wall mounted in the last house and the stand it came with is lost in the mists of time.

I also ordered some fake wasps nests to keep the wasps from scraping our wooden window frames to make their nests :eek: You can hear the little rasping noises they make from inside the house and they'll ruin them eventually. I've read that fake nests will deter them and at £3.49 for two I thought it worth a try.

Right. The downstairs loo is calling and there's a pile of ironing planned for this afternoon.

Have a great day

Fortune x

doingitanyway wrote: »

Amazing how effective deep cleaning can be. Glad tiles came up so well

I can't wait for Tile Man to do his stuff. It will make so much difference to the place.

Fortune x