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Something for the weekend

Jobs for the weekend have included:
- buying a new kitchen sink, as the old one has a bent tap and dent in the draining board from a rock through the window incident when the house was on the market. We didn't get time to fit it, but have identified why there was water coming from under the sink when we ran the tap - the feed for the washing machine hasn't been blocked off.
- returning lots and lots and lots of mail to senders. There must have been six different names on the letters on the doormat, and that was before I did a Moist Von Lipwig and opened the cupboard under the stairs to be confronted with sacks of mail, the stuff at the bottom on a damp concrete floor and going mouldy. Erk.
- fitting one light fitting. There would have been more, but the wiring has no junction boxes, rather all the wires go into the ceiling rose, which the fitting was not designed for. The wires to the ceiling rose were either dropped down between two close joists, or had been posted down a hole in a joist, so we couldn't slot a junction bow through the hole in the ceiling. The upstairs floor is tongue and groove floor ply, so nigh on impossible to lift up, so we couldn't put the junction box under there. We got there in the end though. Couldn't test if the thing works, because we're still waiting for power (Tuesday).
- visiting many many B&Qs and Homebases to buy paint testers, doormats, and other things that cost lots of money.

We also moved my papasan chair to the house so I have something to sit in to wait for people to come and sort out meters, deliver bathroom tiles, give quotes for boilers etc.
We're getting there, slowly but surely!