It's raining again*

[panik]

and I'm exiled upstairs, for the builders are here to fix the chimney/rip-up the kitchen ::cue sounds of filth, turmoil, mud and destruction:: I'm feeling a tad fed up when I see

THIS

and suddenly, there is good in the world again.


*Sunday-Monday, the deluge actually stopped for a whole 2 days in a row. Honest to God, there was actual sunlight all day long. I almost went mental.

ETA 14.30: There's been a huge wreck of dust and stone, everything reeks of wet soot. The new liner has become lodged in the tunnel of goats against a fallen stone deep in the chimney. The builder is currently bashing a hole in the spare-bedroom wall (occassional home to many a fangirl :) to free it. Lord knows how long this is all going to take to put right. ::holds head in hands:: On the bright side, he's fixed our drippy gutter while he was up the ladder so, swings and roundabouts. shitshitshitshit.

ETA2: 16.00: He's still here, still working poor chap, up and down the ladder and on to the roof in the pouring rain.
Pictorial evidence of our nightmare.



In the kitchen...



In the bedroom...



Oop  t' chimney.

It's still raining, too. ::laughs like a mad thing::

Comments

[madmogs.livejournal.com]

It just makes everything better!

(though I'd about have to halve my chocolate consumption to qualify )-: )

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

Well I was always told chocolate was one of the main food groups. This is something I've followed devotedly all my life - as is easily seen.

Nice to be proved right.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Now all I need to learn is that alcohol prevents cancer and I'm in heaven.

Meanwhile - didn't you renovate your kitchen last year? Why are you getting it ripped up again?

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

This on the other hand makes me very sad. http://tiny.cc/6sgv7 Only light beer from now on?

The home renovations sound traumatic. I' be hiding under the bed myself

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

OMG - do you still have a house to live in??? Bugger me rigid, you need chocolate, and strong booze, and possibly drugs... I'll send the cabana boys round with supplies straight away.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

The bedroom photo brings back memories... when I moved here, heating was a big solid fuel stove - actually, I think would burn anything, but I stuck with anthracite. However, it was past its best, seriously needed serviced but I didn't know where to get anyone to service it, so I decided to put in gas - bottled gas because there isn't any mains gas here. Big mistake; a couple of years later l replaced the gas with electricity (though nothing is as warm as that stove was... though I'm glad I don't have to heave anthracite in from the outside bunker on cold, wet, snowy or frosty days!)

Anyway, when the gas was put in, there was a major problem with the lining because of a fallen stone blocking a goodly part of the chimney, and they had to knock a hole through the bedroom wall...

After everything was finished, I discovered a leak at the chimney in the attic. The heat of the fire had presumably kept it dry (there had been a bad fire in that chimney several years before I moved in). Two attempts to find and seal wherever it was leaking failed, and ended up (with my neighbours' agreement) getting the chinmey stack taken down and the hole tiled over.

But getting the gas in and the hole in the wall fixed didn't take more than a couple of days.

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

All over your lovely stove! How awful!

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Eeek!? Good luck with the making good on all of that. Still, drippy gutter fixed is good, right?

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

Re: the chocolate, that *is* good news!

I hope the devastations renovations are continuing smoothly. And it will eventually stop raining. I'm fairly sure... :)

[agent-popsicle.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure how else to contact you, but I've been searching for The Sentinel episodes for ages and just recently stumbled across the download page on tehomet.net. I just wanted to shoot you a thank you for having made all of them available! Probably old news to you, but I really am grateful. :) So... thanks!

Allie