Our builder was saying he’d be finished by ‘Navidad’ – which is Christmas. However, we suddenly realised that this wouldn’t be the 25th, this would be the 6th January!! Also, only Christmas Day is a holiday, so he is likely to be working on Boxing Day. Not that this would worry us at all, but could have been a bit of a surprise if we weren’t expecting it (I remember our first Boxing day when the electricity man came to read the metre at 8 in the morning!!).
Of course, this won’t be ‘finished’ finished, as we will still have to get the painting done and then start deciding on where everything is going to go, and what we need in the way of bits and pieces (mirrors for the bathroom for instance).
The small bathroom is now finished and it looks great – AND it s so nice not to have a toilet that wobbles! The new cistern is tiny too, so no more waiting for hours for it to fill.
I’m now planning our upholstery projects. I did go to classes many moons ago, and I am sure I have some tools somewhere – but I think they are long lost. So it is really a case of starting again. I did take a look at eBay for old tools (Ian is heading back to the UK in a week or so and I am sure he will be delighted to bring back the odd upholstery hammer or two!). I’ve been sending Ian links to upholstery books as hints. He’s not very good at that sort of thing though, if the hint isn’t prefixed with I WOULD LIKE… he doesn’t seem to get it!
We’ve got quite a lot of upholstery projects – I think that I bought most of our chairs and things with that in mind. I think that this will take me most of next year!
We ran out of Sam’s rice and meat a couple of weeks ago, so we started giving him normal dog food again as he’d been having such regular fits, it didn’t seem to be doing any good. Anyway – immediately his fits stopped. He’d been having one every day or couple of days so it was quite noticeable that they had stopped. Sadly, he had one today, but only a tiny one. It does seem odd that when we change his food his fits appear to stop. I guess that is all it is – an oddness – however it does seem strange.
We’re getting very blase about his fits now. I think because he appears to spring back to life so quickly and it is obviously much more distressing for us, than it is for him. I don’t know what goes through his mind when he comes round, I wonder if he just thinks he fell over?
The weather turned cold yesterday. It was rather strange. If the wind came from one direction it was bitter, and if it came from the other direction it was warm. The big contrast in temperature really emphasised this. It was worth standing outside just to experience this!