Good Morning Early Birds

[emmie]

morning all, i hope you are in fine fettle and that the heat isn't affecting you too much.
i woke around about 4am and i am now fully awake with various chores like the washing on the go. that won't take long, and i then have the rest of the day to chill or not.
The weather does seem somewhat extreme but the forecast is for showers and thunder storms, so perhaps it will break the humidity.

[emmie]

i took a long ride out to Bluewater in Kent yesterday - i am looking for bits and bobs for the flat, which i didn't find. But will keep looking, as i know more or less what i want now.

[LadyCG]

Morning Emmie,

I was up at 03:30 along with OH and I have been working ever since. System is still running a bit slow after the upgrade. I've got the fan on, thankfully. It was ridiculously hot again in the night.

[emmie]

morning Lcg

[emmie]

it was too hot i confess, i threw all the duvet covers off as it was too much with it on.

[LadyCG]

I've never been to Bluewater - never really been to Kent (although have driven through it). I really fancy visiting Canterbury - it's always been one of those places in this country on my to-do list.

Talking of bits and bobs, I've seen some nice stuff recently. I'm talking a wall clock and bits and bobs for the kitchen / diner, some shelves, etc. I've got a tile sample coming today but I'm fairly confident it's exactly the same as the one I've already got which will be fantastic as it means that we'll save nearly £600 on the floor tiles from the other quote we received. I think the tiles are being discontinued so I want to get the order in soon. We need approx 95sq metres.

How are you managing to sleep in this dreadful heat?

[emmie]

i bought my stuff on line mostly, but i am trying to find some lamp shades for the bases i bought recently. but harder than i thought.
trying to sleep in this heat, half the time its on the sofa as i am falling asleep from the warmth early on in the evening, but i can catch up if needs be in the day time.

[emmie]

your place is taking a long time, when will you be finished?

[johnny.5]

Good Morning
One And All
And Isn't It
A Beautiful Morning

Am I Right ?
I'm Not Wrong !

[Canary42]

Good Morning, unusual for me to be up with you early risers :-)

/// I really fancy visiting Canterbury///

I can recommend it. Although I was born in Kent we left the area shortly after the war and until 2 years ago I had never been back.

Then a week in Canterbury solved that, and I found it a delightful town, although a bit tourist-heavy in high season I would imagine. Go for it.

[LadyCG]

It's hard to say, Emmie, OH is doing a lot of work himself to save money (and because he's good at it) but also we have to work around the schedules of others such as the Plasterers, Plumbers and Electrician. Trying to get people to come and do their bits when we need them too isn't always easy.

The kitchen, etc, is due to be fitted on 16 August but OH has had a meltdown and says we just won't be ready in time. He wants the whole floor tiled by then (he's doing this himself with the help of his dad) and the brickslips mostly done prior to the kitchen installation and he says there's no way the utility room will be ready by them. Plasterers can't come and do their bit until OH and FIL have plasterboarded that room. FIL can't help out this week as he's having a new kitchen fitted himself at the weekend so OH is going round theirs tonight to help lay the underfloor heating and the screed.

It's a nightmare, honestly. He's going to have to call the kitchen place later and see if we can delay by at least a couple of weeks.

[emmie]

morning Canary

[emmie]

morning Johnny, yes it is

[emmie]

i can't imagine doing all that work Lcg, and not being habitable for a long time, i couldn't live like that at all, the mess for one thing.

[DTCwordfan]

Morning all, had supper down at my sister's last night and nice and warm so we ate outside again, their patio heater on after nine when the sun went down...very pleasant, a lasagne and large green salad the offerings and then a key lime pie.....

[emmie]

morning Dtc

[emmie]

i stopped off at my local yesterday to cool off with a nice cold drink, nothing alcoholic at the moment as it goes straight to my head.

[LadyCG]

It'll all be worth it in the end Emmie. We've had to strip everything back to the bare bones. Every wall and ceiling has been replastered, every skirting board replaced, new flooring throughout the entire house, new internal doors, all-new windows and doors, a whole new re-wire, extensive plumbing (as one of the main bedrooms was converted into a bathroom and the pre-existing bathroom was turned into a walk-in dressing room) and we've had a big extension out the back and added in a utility and downstairs shower room plus an extra bedroom over the garage to replace the one we turned into a bathroom), a new boiler, all new light fittings, shutters, built-in wardrobes, new stairs, and much more besides. It's all the little jobs you have to do that are time-consuming, all the trips to Wickes, B&Q and Screwfix to get bits and bobs to do the little jobs and so it goes on.

Will you venture out today?

Thanks for that, Canary, I will definitely make the trip one day.

Morning, DT.

[emmie]

was going to go to a shopping centre in Lewisham to go to wilco's but i have just ordered what i need from Amazon, so have no need to go out, will see what the weather does....

[Chipchopper]

Good morning all!
Crashed out downstairs, for the 3rd time in a row, its just too hot in bed at the mo. shower, coffee fresh air, brecky, in that order, is the plan.
Take care.

[emmie]

morning Chip.