Nursery Tales
Last weekend was another busy one in the Hartley house, with the bonus of plenty of Hartley Helpers. Roger, Jean, Jo and Stuart all came by for some more hard labour to help keep progress moving along nicely.
The biggest step forward was with the nursery, which is now fully fitted and ready for a little person to move into. This involved flat pack construction of the chest of drawers, washing of all baby clothes and blankets, and ingenious stapling of a curtain to the wall to cover the plywood shower space. . (curtain bargainiously purchased brand new from ebay for £13 delivered - and today I saw the same one for sale in Debenhams for £100, which made me very happy!).
The electrics were fully signed off at the weekend by our Part P inspector. This was after a week of wiring by Dave to fit the bedroom and landing lights, along with all the mains smoke alarms. The inspector gave Dave a gold star for the quality of his wiring (courtesy of a week's training at Ford Swansea Plant in 1996). We also learned that our bed will be delivered next week, along with our curtains hopefully - so we should be ready to move up to our loft santury very soon indeed. Another excuse for me to go shopping today and buy new quilt covers to complete the look (for those concerned, I am adapting very well to life without work - today I mostly slept, shopped, and met friends for cream tea and gossip. It's a hard life..)
More hard slog was put in by the team in the garden, with a much needed trip to the recycling depot to remove the piles of wood, debris, windows and doors that were featuring in our front garden - please note the silver estate convoy (baby boomer and echo boomer lifestyle choices in evidence...) Then, there was yet more digging in the garden and moving of soil into position for the truck to remove - it came yesterday and managed to shift only half the soil (10tons) before it was full. Roger discovered and removed half a caravan in the depths of the back garden, holding together another few tons worth of compost and soil. With a newly flat back lawn, we then got our shiny new lawnmower in action and planted some new grass seed, which the fat pigeons have been enjoying ever since..
We ended the weekend with some much deserved beers/ginger ale in the sunshine in the back garden, before sending our exhausted helpers homeward.
posted by Ali & Dave @ 5:24 pm
3 Comments:
Awww...your nursery looks so cute! I am jealous!
Alison, I'm glad you're coping with life minus work. Funnily enough, I didn't have a problem with it for a year either!
That nursery can now only be complete with a cute baby in the cot. Can't wait for Hartley junior to make regular appearances in your blog.
Did you really have 1/2 a caravan hiding in the garden !! who knows what else you might find in there
hope Dave's flu gets better soon
love the nursery - it's gorgeous !
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