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Bathroom_v2.1.4_final_FINAL

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Nearly there. _FINAL ly.

Almost everything was completed yesterday.

Toilet hung.
Shower glass in.
Mirrors up and wired in.
Countertop installed.
Basins glued. n0 fUmEs wErE InH@LeD…
Taps drilled and attached.

And it’s just that penultimate one that’s holding us back. Because the glue needs to set before they can plumb the basins in, and so they’ll need to visit us for about half an hour on Monday.

So _FINAL_FINAL, then.

While the guys have been great throughout – and I’ll try to remember a post with some contacts in for local people wanting recommended local services for local things – it’s been a real mission to get through this with the numerous public holidays meaning short weeks, and a small, tight, hard to get to workspace in the East Wing of 6000 Manor.

But we’re (very, very nearly) there now. And it’s looking great.

We might even get to sleep in our own room tonight.

Tough (stuff?) times

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What with one thing and another, the last few weeks have been rather difficult and disrupted. I’m equally ready and absolutely not ready at all to get back into some sort of new normality, but with (at least) another two weeks of bathroom renovations to go, I can’t see it being a smooth transition.

Still, I’m really not in the mood to let my mind idle for too long, and so I’ve been throwing myself into doing stuff as much as possible. I’ve got plans for sprucing up the spare room and the kids’ bathroom, but I can’t do that at the moment because they’re two of the most important rooms in the house with the ongoing renovations.

We spent yesterday afternoon rebuilding part of the garden. I’ve been repotting plants and tidying up out there again this morning, fighting – and comprehensively being defeated by – the bergwind and the autumnal leaves. And now, after this blog post and before the afternoon’s footy and this evening’s braai, I intend to hit the Geoguessr website for the first time in over a month.

And should I run out of other stuff to do (unlikely), I do still have about a million photos that need cataloguing. That would likely be a plan for later in the week, though. It might be (and it is) 35oC today, but we’re due for a maximum of 12oC on Thursday.

There’s even talk of lighting a fire simply to keep warm, and not to cook food on. Crazy, crazy times.

Or “Autumn”, as we usually call it.

The week ahead

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It is, as they say, looking a bit hectic.

Tomorrow: Hike and a music lesson. And then a football match to watch. Probably need to find a public holiday vet for the beagle as well. Today has not been a good day.
Tuesday: Back to school (not me). Music exam recording session (not me). Y11 farewell dinner (not me). Rearranged football match to play (me).
Wednesday: Last day at school (not me). Horseriding (not me). Arranged football match to play (me).
Thursday: Molton Brown Curry Club – with actual curry (me and I can’t wait).
Friday: First exam in a six week exam session (not me). Birthday dinner (not me, but I am invited).
Saturday: Mrs 6000 heads away for the weekend.

Bathroom renovations continue throughout.

All pretty straightforward then.

I was wrong (but I was also 100% right)

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Remember this post?

It was the one where I shared this graph:

And I said that the graph was 100% true. There is nothing more exciting than getting the front seat upstairs on a double decker bus at any age. I absolutely stand by that.

And then I said this:

I’m just sad that my kids never got to experience it. 

And that prompted an email from my dad. He expressed his disappointment that my usually unerring accuracy on the blog had… er… erred.

Because he attached this image of my kids. It was taken at 3:30pm on Thursday 12th July 2012, and there they are – aged 6 and very almost 4 – on the front seat upstairs on a double decker bus.

And that looks like the bottom of West Street.

To be fair, I wasn’t there. I had no idea that this had happened.
This was clearly a Grandma and Granddad sponsored trip to town.
I was uninvolved.
(I was probably in a pub somewhere.)

So I was wrong. My kids did get to experience it.

But did they enjoy it?

Well, let’s check this photo, taken a minute later at the junction of Holly Lane.

Oh, I think so.

So it looks like I was absolutely right, as well.

A quick post on a rainy day

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Yes, seriously: a rainy day.

We don’t get many of them in Cape Town at this time of the year.

Anyway, two things to cover today. The main one being the widespread outrage* at the lack of a beagle update in yesterday’s post. I won’t be making that mistake again.

The beagle is doing fine, thank you very much. A first check-up with the vet this morning was passed with flying colours and we are now moving on towards bandage removal next week. Stitches and staples will come out the week after that, and then there’s this crazy plan to get her into a swimming pool for some hydrotherapy.

Good luck with that.

The other thing is to do a control image for yesterday’s Heathrow picture. Because how do you know that it isn’t always that quiet (although, you do).

So here’s that one for you. Some catch-up going on.

On that note, we’ve got a quiet day overhead today, with all the local planes taking off to the North, and not bothering this side of the peninsular at all.

Like how I tied that all together at the end?
Mmm. Me too.

* I got a whole email