Jake and Sarah

Dodgy iPhone photo but it gives you an idea of the floor and the blinds...

YEY!

roll on the rest!

obviously ignore the cables- they are yet to be hidden!

Well what's been happening recently then?

WORKING! All the bloody time - next day off- NEXT Friday that's in 8 bloody days!

anyway- the green car has been in to the car hospital and cost me £468 to fix a dodgy clutch box and a throttle body. She's now all well and shiny and working.

Our blinds have turned up so soon I shall be attempting to put them up once I've gone to get some bloody screws and rawl plugs that the tight fisted bastards, at the wooden blind company, failed to include...

this will, hopefully, mean no more shimmying across the floor naked whilst we try and get showered/ up without being spotted through the window...!

EDIT........

all the above was written this morning and now it's 14:00 and the blinds ARE up and look lovely, the cooker has been picked up and paid for off Ebay (thank fuck) and I'm now waiting for someone to arrive here so I can babysit them sunning plants outside all day

...though the green car's brake pedal seems to be sticking now...

it's never ending is it with cars?

Hope you are all having a great day- it's gorgeously sunny here and actually quite warm

Just reading the Telegraph and came across this site here

this is my favourite

priceless

Taking the train to work whilst the green cars clutch is fixed.
Arrive at station very early and find hundreds of people outside.
Bollocks. I wait with the milling throngs the. Decide to chance it and
ask someone from train station.

Turns out the only train running is the one to Canterbury in 15
minutes! Good job I asked. I should get to work on time ...

Also found out our handyman had his van stolen last night with our
kitchen bits inside! And the stair nosing as he was going to work on
them at home. He's going to replace them but what a pain for him!

Still now he's ( nearly ) finished we won't be walking sawdust round
the house!

Anyway train should be leaving soon so au revoir.

:)

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we've been in a few days now and STILL I don't know where the bloody light switches are!

at the mo we're just hanging around whilst our floorer finishes the hall and the edges etc. we're stuck in the lounge as he's sawing things into bits and leaving sawdust everywhere! It will be fine once he's finished when i can sweep up and make everywhere look lovely.

if he finishes ...

we wandered round our new town today and it was pretty uneventful but it's got lots of the usual shops, Boots, Clintons, shops selling shit, hardware etc- there's even a Wimpy! Thought they shut in the 80's!

anyway, we're on the net but my Mac is playing up with it's wireless. Stupid machine, they've gone downhill since they put Intel Inside. As much as I love Macs it's like "JUST FUCKING CONNECT LIKE YOU DID YESTERDAY!" all the time...

thank fuck I've got a network cable that I'm plugged into instead...

anyway I'm boring myself with this!

no mention of my tash... bloody Movember indeed

WHAT A DAY!

Up at 7:30 to get ready for the removal men who arrived at 9:00.

Sarah and I were running around doing last minute cleaning things before they arrived with Sarah dissing Henry Hoover every two minutes (Fair she borrowed her mates Dyson- Thanks Camelia! - and it got FULL after the Henry had been round!)

Removal men arrive and load van and they were even coerced into taking the cooker and fridge by the arrival of three crisp £10 notes

I go to new flat and set everything up (after sweeping though the entire flat, breaking our handyman's broom, dust from new floor see)

Sarah cleans the hell out of the old flat...

About 17:30 Sarah arrives and I'm STILL waiting for the BT man to arrive and set us up...

18:00 I ring BT and moan at them, they say the line's active I just need to find the MASTER SOCKET....

of course! NOT.

with 5 sockets in the new flat I eventually find it and it's in the hall... That's fine methinks as we're on N wireless now so it should easily reach the lounge.

NO it doesn't...

and the BT man told me the other sockets are probably not wired up and I'll have to get an engineer round and PAY him to connect them.

bollocks to that- I go down to the master socket and open it up. In it is a data/ telephone cable with about 9 loose wires...

OK so connect the blue wire with white stripes to curcuit 2

the orange wire (or brown one) to circuit 5

you get my drift... anyway with a bit of guess work I rush upstairs to try out the other sockets

THEY WORK!!!

lucky me

anyway Sarah's here with our KFC!

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ALL day we've been packing and packing and packing. Sarah's got a bad cold but has soldiered on all day.

We've had 2 trips to OUR NEW FLAT to drop some stuff off. Long journey...

Now all my plants are safely stored in the flat, our flooring is nearly completed- just the beading around the edges to do and our current flat is a huge tip!

The Ebay verdict is now this:

Fridge- offered to closest bidder but not replied- people who mistakenly bid were really apologetic and all sorted though it's still not been taken up and is still here. Means we have a fridge 'til we get a new shiny Samsung Fridge/ Freezer
Cooker- Complete prick said couldn't pick up until Monday so I tried to cancel the auction which he refused saying I was "unreasonable".
Quick live chat to ebay and they said "insist he pays or cancels the auction" which I have done but no reply. Will try get the movers to take it tomorrow.
Tyres: Nothing. Nada. Fuck all. So i'm taking them with me and he can either pick them up or not.
Tumble Dryer: Buyer says "sorry got another one" even though they won the auction for £97. I'm going to take them to court to get the money. You bid on an item, you fucking pay for it. Will get the movers to take it to ours tomorrow.

fucking farce are ebay buyers- shower of shite the lot of them (apart from our 2 good buyers) though the two guys who came to take my TV texted me this the day after:

"Want your dick sucked?"

I never replied ...

fucking minefield is Ebay I tell you!

be careful out there ...

Out of 5 things we had on ebay only 2 have been sold and picked up.

The fridge man couldn't pick it up today

The tumble dryer person won the bid for £97 but doesn't want to pay

The cooker knob cannot pick up today

The tyre man is silent

FUCKING TOSSERS