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The electrician is here. Assuming he can fix the problem, we'll soon be tidying up a bit before wending our weary way back across the Pennines for the Friday M62 Hell-ride back to Dad's.
::sigh::
We're not going to put all the furniture back. Next visit, we have the kitchen to sort out - maybe the stairs too, if we can find the time - it seems pointless to sort out a room that's going to be re-messed up as soon as we get back again so we'll be camped in the bedroom again next time, leaving the precious things of the house safe and soundly stacked in the study till we're all done and dusted.
So, we're almost done for this trip - I hope (assuming the nasty black stain doesn't work its way through yet another layer of skim. I swear to God, the thing's aliiive! O:!)
ETA: 3pm on the dot - the electrician's been and gone (£47! We'll be using him again for sure *g*). The mess is cleaned up and bags packed; time to strip the bed, shower up and get on our way. See y'all on the other side...
::sigh::
We're not going to put all the furniture back. Next visit, we have the kitchen to sort out - maybe the stairs too, if we can find the time - it seems pointless to sort out a room that's going to be re-messed up as soon as we get back again so we'll be camped in the bedroom again next time, leaving the precious things of the house safe and soundly stacked in the study till we're all done and dusted.
So, we're almost done for this trip - I hope (assuming the nasty black stain doesn't work its way through yet another layer of skim. I swear to God, the thing's aliiive! O:!)
ETA: 3pm on the dot - the electrician's been and gone (£47! We'll be using him again for sure *g*). The mess is cleaned up and bags packed; time to strip the bed, shower up and get on our way. See y'all on the other side...
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Meep - for some reason I hadn't twigged you're doing the whole house. Gulp!
And what is that black stuff??? Not sure whether to suggest you get a Geiger counter or a priest...
Safe journey this afternoon/evening - the roads are heaving with angry grockles here, so maybe you'll have a clear run *g*
a Geiger counter or a priest...
The whole house indeed for needs must, tis verily in a state. (o: That way when/if we decide to sell, barring new carpets (which it sorely needs) we can just thwap it straight on the market. Either/or. it needs doing just for us, it was getting very scruffy.
I'm not a cream-walls sort of a gal but it is all looking rather nice, I must say and the many throws and persian rugs wil soon lift the decor out of the realms of the bland.
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I hope your trip back wasn't too much of a nightmare!
That electrician is a keeper for sure! =>}
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The trip back was as bad as expected on a Friday afternoon with low cloud and rain - a particularly high number of idiots between Manchester and Rochdale tonight - but we made it back OK.
If I were re-writing Inferno for our time I'd cast the M62 as the road to Hell. ::nods::
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That's sure a plumber to remember. =>}
Yikes! Glad you made it back safely.
Personally, I consider the TRANS-CANADA highway passing through the whole damned city of Montreal to be the road right through Hell. We have to go through it EVERY time we want to go to the cottage or our daughter's, because there is no alternative route at all. Ugly! =<{
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That really is a beautiful area. It's too bad we always destroy lovely places with our highways and housing developments. The same thing happnes all the time here.
Unfortunately, Montreal is an island, so the only way on or off is by bridges or the tunnel. You can imagine what lovely funnels they make for heavy traffic. Just horrible.
Here's an example of traffic on one of the service roads under and parallel to an elevated "express"way.