Just updating today, tried yesterday but the laptop or internet was playing silly beggars and wouldn't let me online :( Saturday nights chinese buffet was awesome!!!! Well worth the wait :) Was a nice place too, I was very good and did not drink but I filled my belly with 3 plates of starters and 2 plates of main course then 1 desert....could not fit another mouthfull in.....unlike Rob who managed a second desert!!! Dunno where he puts it, must have hollow legs! I could hardly move when we left but it was a good night and a really nice treat [View Full Entry]

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Been working in the bathroom today, first job was a killer! Sanding down all the plastering on the 2 previously wallpapered walls. Really had to push hard with the sandpaper to get it smooth. My arms went through the pain barrier, they hurt like hell now. After that was done we had a clean up then washed and masked off the beams to protect them from any paint splashes. Ive done the cutting in with the white emulsion on the bathroom ceiling but i decided against starting the rolling, mainly as I wouldn't have finished it tonight and also coz i [View Full Entry]

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GaryCat gave me a heart attack last night! Rob had gone out to the supermarket at Champdenier and I was sitting on the sofa playing a game on the laptop and I noticed that Gary was very interested in something that was under the dresser in the kitchen. I started watching him, he was having a hissy fit trying to get under it, around it, over it, behind it and I couldn't see what the hell it was that was bothering him. I thought it must be a fly as he likes to stalk them but then once he got himself [View Full Entry]

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It was games night in the main house on Thursday night, about 15 people turned up to play Beetle Drive, I had never heard of it but basically there are four players to a table and you roll a dice, each number on the dice relates to a part of a beetle's body so if you roll a six you can draw a beetle body, if you roll a five you can draw a beetle head, a three is a leg and so on, winner is first person to draw a complete beetle and shout 'beetle'!!!! I think we played 20 [View Full Entry]

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The outside of the house is finished!!!! Woop Woop we are allowed our chinese buffet on Saturday. I am so excited!!! Finished the painting and stripped the scaffold, wasn't too bad getting it down, easier than I thought it would be, mind you Rob did all the hard bits, all I did was hold things and take things down to ground level. The house looks so much nicer without all that ugly scaffold in front of it and when the sun is shining it looks so bright!!! You can probably see it from outer space haha!!!! [View Full Entry]

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Cannot get on with finishing the last of the masonary on the front of the house due to drizzly rain and mist so have moved inside and started work on the upstairs bathroom. No chinese buffet this week then haha!!!!!! The bathroom ceiling has been redone with new plasterboard by Remmy and Rob and we are now doing all the prep work that is required before we can paint it. Started off my scraping all the plaster off the original beams, due to awkward angles etc there is not really any way Remmy could avoid it when doing the plastering. Its [View Full Entry]

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Congrats this time to my friend Gerri and her hubby Stuart who are also going to be parents again!!!! They have one little lady called Chelsea (Hello Chelsea :)). She is ... god i have forgot her age!!! 13 I think!!!! There is also little Elise who must be about 18 months ish!!! I am crap at remembering!!! I hope this time they get a little boy as I know they would both like a son. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you chick! Love to you all xxxxx [View Full Entry]

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Oh YES we are so close to that chinese buffet I can almost smell it!!!!!! Started of the day in the bathroom, finished washing down the walls and sanding the ceiling. Made some repairs to the plasterwork then after lunch just tidied it up a bit and left it as the morning fog lifted and it was a blue sky with sun so we decided it would be best to get outside and get on with trying to complete the masonary. We have done this all bar one patch but that needs to be done by the ladder once the scaffold [View Full Entry]

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Just back fae a bit of a dander in the area around the house. Went along to see Columbo the Donkey and he was there :) he came right over to say hello and I clambered thru a ditch so I could see him properly and get my hands on him. I think he is awesome. Its drizzling a bit today but that didn't matter, walked down the road past the golf course, Looks like a nice course but you can only see a wee bit from the road, its got a cool pond and also a Chateau on it. Loads [View Full Entry]

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NO I am NOT pregnant so calm doon!!!!! Ha Ha. MEGA CONGRATULATIONS TO COLIN AND FIONA :) My brother told me today he is going to be a dad again!!!! Both Colin and Fiona are over the moon, I wasn't aware that they were trying for another addition to the family but i did know my bro would love another baby. I'm so happy for them both. I'm going to be an aunty again woop woop!!!! They have just found out, Baby Dall is due very early July.....maybe it will be early and come on my birthday 29th June!!!!! Well done [View Full Entry]

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