EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

More Progress:

- [STRIKE]Change out of work clothes[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Get clothes ready for tomorrow[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Oven on[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Prep veggies for roasting[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Veggies in oven[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Upper body/weights workout to routine devised by Mr EH[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Collapse in a painful heap until veggies are roasted [/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Finish sorting hi-res helicopter photos and dropbox[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]email dropbox link to the person who needs it[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Cook sausages, eat dinner[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Clear memory cards[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]pack camera bag[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]sort out anything else I want for tomorrow and pop in bag by front door.[/STRIKE]
- Put clothes into front room and makeup/hairbrush into bathroom - MrEH will NOT want disturbing at 5.30am
- Throw a load into the washing machine to go through overnight
- Tidy kitchen

Just those last few bits to get done and all sorted! :T

angelpye wrote: »

Sounds like a lovely day out! I need to get out and about with my camera at some point. Is this a hobby or are you a professional? Fab news on the kitchen! I can't wait to have the time to put my house plans in place

Very definitely just a hobby - I have no interest in making money from it, just fun! Having said that, I've had oddments published over the years including most recently some bits I've done for the Reds - which is always nice!

MistyMountainTop wrote: »

It is such an upheaval to have work like that done, and it seems such a PITA while you are in the middle of it. It's like childbirth - once it's over you forget about the pain and can enjoy the results of the hard work. Soon it will all be a distant memory...

I'm glad you had some blue skies at last! Back to grey today, but spring is definitely here!

I'd quite like to fast forward directly to the distant memory bit, to be honest...! :rotfl:

Plan for tonight is yet more kitchen emptying - can't believe that this time next week, all being well, it should be getting started! :eek: I've put together a rough meal plan for the weekend and start of next week that should tell us what we can now manage without from the kitchen cupboards, and also let me put together a shopping list ready for the weekend.
Also need to go through the fridge to work out what can just be thrown out - you know, the odd scraps in a jar that lurk at the back... The freezer got defrosted on Sunday so that's one horrible job ticked off.

Must start putting together a list for the builder of what can go where in terms of appliances too - the dishwasher needs to go into our garage as I'm hoping to rehome that, the fridge freezer will have to go to the front room until the new one is up and running - hopefully the old one will then be able to be rehomed. The oven is past it and needs disabling and removing to outside for the council heavy squad to take away (or more likely the local !!!!!! who can sniff out junk at 100 yards) and the washing machine will have to decamp to the garage until it's time to reinstall it I think.

Need to go out at the weekend and buy:
Paint
Blinds
Light Fitting
Tap

In other spendacious news, I've twigged that both our passports need renewing this year so we can kiss goodbye to best part of £150 there there. Got to be done - mine at least needs doing ahead of September (expires August) and might as well get done sooner rather than later as the extra time will just run on.

Well kitchen is now 95% emptied with just the last bits to do this evening. We went out over the weekend and bought the blinds. Also went to try to get the tap we'd chosen only to discover that Homebase have discontinued it - would have been helpful if they'd bothered removing it from their display, too, then! :mad: I ordered the light fitting at lunch time so that should hopefully be ready to collect from store from tomorrow.

Tiles are ordered - delightfully cheap at under £200 for the tiles for the inside of the larder, the wall and the floor. There will be grout to think about on top of that and the other finishing type bits but we've still got some grout left from the bathroom which will help.

Also made final decisions on the appliances so now have those listed ready to order. Hoping to be able to find a discount code for AO when we come to order them.

Found a local charity that sell electricals in their shop who will take the old dishwasher and fridge freezer away for us once those are done with - the old cooker is completely past it and just needs scrapping.

Need to talk to the builder about adding an outside tap onto the spec for the works for us too - guess that's not a massive extra for him, and it'll make life masses easier for us when it comes to washing cars.

Can't believe it's finally happening! :T

Plans for food this week are last meal cooked in the old kitchen tonight - jacket potatoes, beans and cheese with salad! We know how to celebrate huh?! :rotfl: Tomorrow will be bolognese sauce with couscous - dead easy to reheat/cook just using the microwave and a kettle. Tomorrow we'll eat at the pub I think, or maybe grab fish & chips, we'll see. Thursday I'll drag the Shepherds pies out of the freezer and we can have those with veg of some description. Thankfully we're away from Friday right over the weekend which makes life easier.

Cheers Angel!

Last bits cleared out last night/this morning and when I left the first bit of cabinet had been ripped out and they were about to move the fridge freezer into the front room for us - having seen how much hassle the guys had getting it into the kitchen in the first place I decided that was a good point to leave! :rotfl:

Can't decide whether to collect the light fitting tonight or leave it until later in the week, closer to when it will be needed. To be honest the last thing we need is anything else cluttering the place up but I'm a bit concerned about forgetting to get it and then it's needed in a hurry....hmmm.

On the tap - I had a further look about yesterday and found a different one which we think we might go for - if we do it'll be a £40 saving on the other one we'd picked out to replace the discontinued choice.

In other news I had £10 in from one of the survey companies so I've paid that to the 0% card - signature updated to reflect. Waiting for one item to be validated from Prolific and will have another £10 to claim there. Having some issues getting into Opinion Outpost at the moment, but got a little rush of Populus Live stuff yesterday which was nice. Now on 31 points on there so well past the half way point. :T All still ticking along.

Spendiness: (Aside from the kitchen - that's SCARY spendiness!)
Off to Bournemouth for the weekend for the Campaign for Real Ale Members Weekend and AGM - sharing accommodation with a load of friends, that's all paid for already so there will just be food to think about on top. We've agreed we're going to cover that from our own spending money rather than raiding our "fun" account as we'll be using that to pay for our Easter trip to Cornwall.
I bought new walking trousers at the weekend as found a pair that I liked, and that fitted (in a smaller size than my old ones - yay!) in GoOutdoors - £30 but I'll get masses of wear out of them hopefully so I'm happy with that. Need to give some thought to what new stuff I'm going to need for summer - particularly if I can carry on shedding a bit of weight. I've got trousers that were previously a bit on the tight side so they should be OK, but guessing I'll need some tops and bits like that.
I've also got to think about shoes for work for the summer I think - although having said that I do have form for losing weight from my feet (yes, really!) so it might be worth me trying my slightly tight ones on to see how they feel.