Our kitchen cabinet fell off the wall on Friday. It is a very large cabinet and was quite full. Amazingly all that broke was one egg, and even more amazingly, Ian happened to be stood right by it and managed to catch it, superman-like, as it tumbled off the wall. All the animals were ok, but Pirata was scared and ran into a wall with a bit of a bump. If it had fallen on the floor it could have been a very different story. We’d put the cabinet onto part of the wall that Manuel hadn’t redone, so I guess there’s a message there. It has been up for a couple of years, but I guess must have been slowly coming away.
On the plus side that made us think about how to lay out the pantry. Manuel hasn’t started yet on the kitchen so we’ve time for a bit of a re-plan. We’re now thinking about putting marble work surface and units into the pantry and taking out the units, or at least moving them. I think that will work quite well and won’t increase the total cost too much.
The lovely weather that we’ve had through autumn has now broken and it’s cold and wet. Although Monday and Tuesday were both nice and we went for a cycle ride on both days, doing both of our favorite rides. On Tuesday we saw two planes refueling overhead (I had thought one was towing the other, which seemed unusual). This is a picture here – Tues 16th.
Actually, it didn’t matter that the weather wasn’t so nice this week as we have spent the week working on our new site. It wasn’t too bad and after a week we have a site that is ready to launch. We’ve still a lot of work to do on it, but the basic framework is in place. We did spend much of the week working together in Ian’s office and it soon reminded us why we enjoy our own workspace. It took Ian about a nano-second to comment on my ‘unreasonably loud typing’ where I was much too polite to comment on his consistent sighing, mumbling or listening to music at ear-bending levels. Needless to say, my little peaceful haven otherwise know as my workshop is looking pretty good at the moment.
Our websites are doing quite well at the moment, we had our best day ever earlier this week. However we’re very aware that we have to keep pressing forward, if only to stand still. The new site is much more general and hopefully will be a good balance to the others.
We trimmed all the pups yesterday, which means that there is now a heap of shivering dogs under the blanket….