Monday ordered a new mattress for youngest's bed. The springs sticking through his old one. Tuesday ordered new small gas cooker for kitchen (which needs a mains electric feed too), and take delivery of perfectly satisfactory new mattress as ordered (marvellous). Wednesday electrician turns up to drill through 12 inch brick wall to bring 13 amp socket for new gas cooker. Electrician drills straight into 1 inch copper hot water pipe from aga. Water fountains everywhere in kitchen. Telephone plumber. Plumber turns up within half an hour to divert hot water pipe around pierced and completely inaccessible spurting pipe. At same time lorry arrives with second mattress (unordered). Two for one perhaps? Plumber and electrician work like beavers all day to sort out mess. Additional, and frankly unwanted, mattress perched in porch awaiting fate. Telephone number for mattress supplier turns out to be unobtainable for two days on trot. Youngest boy arrives home from after school hockey match with fat ankle, limping badly, and reports hearing his ankle crack when it was hit. Not usually a problem EXCEPT at 11pm he needs to board coach for school history tour to Poland. Physio friend visits and assesses damage. She reports soft tissue damage, binds him up tight and advises rest, cold bathing and elevation. Might be difficult, but he will do his best. Dodging around spare mattress he has now departed for foreign parts complete with heroic limp. Eldest still evading sheep on Thursdays at Louth Cattle Market on behalf of his employers (local Chartered Surveyors) and enjoying all aspects of work so far. This bodes well for his 2011 admission to Harper Adams for a degree in Chartered Surveying. New windscreen now in place in red Skoda, but engineer smashed the water squirters in process. They are being replaced today. All in all its been a trying few days, but hoping for a very quiet and restful weekend with one son absent. Hoping to contact bed company about bloody mattress today.
Think I saw a tawny owl yesterday morning, huge, brown bird, but neighbour tells me they are quite aggressive to other birds, and food stealers, so not as delighted with his presence as I was. Hope neighbour wrong. Barn owls everywhere, must be just the right conditions for them.
Have volunteered to take friend's 5 year old twins to see Fantastic Mr Fox at the theatre in a couple weeks, which quite looking forward to. Must book tickets.
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It never rains but it pours, eh? So much going on it would give me a headache!
happily, bed company have contacted me, and will collect mattress soon - I have brought it to the salt mines out of the way!
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