Back to my Ashley Thomas addiction now. I’ve been mostly hanging fire on buying anything for the house (like these flowers), but I’ve had my eye on these storage tins for months, and I decided not to wait any more. If they don’t suit the next kitchen, I’ll put them in a cupboard and look at them covertly.
Tag: coffee
A retraction
Following yesterday’s post, in which I explained how I was sorry for not picking up the phone to the eBay woman, I would now like to take that back.
Exhibit A is the texted conversation from yesterday morning:
The kitchen is incompatible with the plumbing, so I need to sell it. could you offer it to the next highest bidder for me please. many thanks
I’m sorry, but you will have to relist it. I can’t see the next highest bidder now it’s been sold, and it was possibly different bidders for all 3 items. Sorry unable to help.
OK. I might just change tops and sink, so not a total disaster.
I really didn’t want to get involved in either the fact that plumbing matches the kitchen, not the other way around, or selling the kitchen to another person who could turn out to be just the same, and still be embroiled in this madness. I’m emailing her the photos of the kitchen so she can relist it (when her computer’s back up and running), but that is it! My part is done!
We were at a 105th birthday party yesterday (happy birthday Jaye and Carole!), so didn’t get much done, but we did nip to B&Q in the morning to buy some lights and get the right cooker hood filters (thanks once again to Jason K, who was brilliant. Bet he loved seeing us again!). We decided on some lights from B&Q, like the other ones I wanted, but in a circle instead of on a rod, and £10 cheaper. They have disappeared from B&Q’s website though, we’ve got a habit of choosing lights that are about to be discontinued!
Barry’s also bought a coffee machine that lights up, very exciting! And he oiled the main bit of the worktop so it’s really glossy and smells nice! We also took the protective plastic off the stainless steel splashback, which is always very satisfying.
Weekend
Phew, we have had a busy weekend of running around! I would say it’s nice to get back to work, but I would really rather be at home, plus Barry’s away in London working all this week. Sad face.
On Saturday, I received a call from my brother, who wanted to talk about work for an hour. Grabbing breakfast in between, we then drove to Next in Bradford to pick up the new living room curtains (very exciting, they look great!), and then on to Wakefield to pick up a coffee machine Barry had proudly won on eBay. It turned out to be an espresso machine and the pot was meant for four cups of espresso, not coffee. Cute, but not what we’re looking for. That will need to be relisted.
We then got home to start listing the old kitchen units, oven and hob on eBay, zapped some leftovers in the microwave for lunch, and got a call from my best friend Charlie, almost on the verge of tears. To set the scene, she, her boyfriend, and baby, were moving on Saturday, and would not accept any offers of help (the baby may have but he can’t talk yet). Anyway, they were moving back to their old house, which they’d been renting out, and it appears the tenants changed the locks. We drove to Otley to pick up the keys from the agency and took them over so they could actually get into the house. Not before a friendly locksmith had charged them £60 callout! We were supposed to go back later for a celebratory curry, but that, unsurprisingly, didn’t happen.
Got back home, I finished listing the stuff on eBay (there’s a big gap between the finishing times!) while Barry got cracking with the kitchen. As he’s away this week, he didn’t want to leave me with a completely non-functioning kitchen, so he was trying to get all the wall units up.
We were supposed to be having takeaway at Charlie’s, and I sadly can’t deal with the unfulfilled promise of curry, so we had takeaway for tea anyway. Couldn’t have cooked, the kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it.
There was less running around on Sunday. Barry got cracking putting up doors on all units, putting the drawers together, the handles on the top units, and the cooker hood. It’s made a huge difference – it almost looks finished now! He only had until 4pm yesterday as he had to set off for London, and there’ll be no progress until next weekend now. I’ll get some photos up tomorrow.