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May. 14th, 2008 10:15 pmI'm feeling very fed up. I had to miss the poetry away day yesterday that I've been looking forward to for weeks, owing to my worsening cough. As it happens, Gillian rang me this morning to say that it was probably just as well that I didn't go as it was really cold and might have made me worse.
Unfortunately, if I have another bad night tonight and a similar morning to the one I had today, I doubt whether I shall make it to her class tomorrow, either.
John and Charles took up almost all of the horrid old carpet in my room yesterday and cleaned up the dust as best they could. I expect it will probably take days for it all to settle though. I'm hoping they will take up the rest of it tomorrow, then maybe by Saturday it will have settled enough to make it worth giving the floor a more thorough wash, before I decide what to do with it.
The floor isn't too bad, but it needs sanding and polishing and I don't know whether I can face that, or whether I should just look for some vinyl flooring or some cheap laminate flooring. At present I'm inclining to the latter, as the process of sanding the floor, getting rid of yet more dust and filling in the cracks with that wood-wax stuff, then staining or varnishing it seems like an unclimbable hill to me at the moment, although John and Charles would do it, of course. After it's all settled down and I've had time to get used to it, it will be easier to make a decision.
To add insult to injury our remaining kitchen spotlight fitting turned its toes up again tonight and we had to finish our dinner in the dusk. So we've decided we shall have to get some new ones, which means a trip to B&Q some time tomorrow..........Sigh!...... I suppose I can have a look at the vinyl and laminate flooring while I'm there!
What I would really like would be some floor covering made of smooth chipboard, which fitted together like the Loc-tite flooring does, and which I could varnish. We had something similar on the kitchen floor before we put down the cork tiles and I really liked the feeling of it. It felt soft, smooth and warm at the same time. In a way I would have liked to keep that as the kitchen flooring but it wasn't up to the heavy traffic you get in the kitchen; it would probably be fine for my room, though.
As it is, Morgan has ruined a large patch of the kitchen cork tiles by his habit of sticking one paw in the water bowl and pushing it around till he gets it in the position he wants. Unless the water is mopped up straight away it gets beneath the tiles and pushes them up slightly, which is exactly what has happened. Why he has this infuriating habit I don't know; neither of the other cats has ever done this. I shall definitely have to buy the kitties a water fountain, but it will have to be a really heavy one that Morgan can't drag about.
Charles and I went shopping to Morrison's this afternoon, as we had run out of several crucial things, one of which was bog paper.......can't do without that! I would be too terrified of blocking the drains to use cut up newspaper as my great granddad used to do. One of the compensations of having to go to Morrison's (hock! ptui!) is that I can buy the troops some ready made curry; today it was two for the price of one, so that was good. This meant that I was free to make myself some comforting and filling mushroom soup for my own dinner. I have enough left for another couple of bowlsful, too, so I think I shall freeze it for sometime I need comfort food.
I did A Very Bad Thing this afternoon. I bought a small box of Turkish delight thins, and I ate the lot. My blood sugar is probably through the roof. I am A Very Bad Person Indeed and I shall be frightened to weigh myself tomorrow.
I really must sort out a proper diet and stick to it. My only excuse is that I've been feeling so rough I just can't be bothered at the moment.
Oh well, I seem to have come to an interval in coughing. I'd better go to bed and try to get some sleep before it comes back. Oh! oh! I think it may be too late............
Unfortunately, if I have another bad night tonight and a similar morning to the one I had today, I doubt whether I shall make it to her class tomorrow, either.
John and Charles took up almost all of the horrid old carpet in my room yesterday and cleaned up the dust as best they could. I expect it will probably take days for it all to settle though. I'm hoping they will take up the rest of it tomorrow, then maybe by Saturday it will have settled enough to make it worth giving the floor a more thorough wash, before I decide what to do with it.
The floor isn't too bad, but it needs sanding and polishing and I don't know whether I can face that, or whether I should just look for some vinyl flooring or some cheap laminate flooring. At present I'm inclining to the latter, as the process of sanding the floor, getting rid of yet more dust and filling in the cracks with that wood-wax stuff, then staining or varnishing it seems like an unclimbable hill to me at the moment, although John and Charles would do it, of course. After it's all settled down and I've had time to get used to it, it will be easier to make a decision.
To add insult to injury our remaining kitchen spotlight fitting turned its toes up again tonight and we had to finish our dinner in the dusk. So we've decided we shall have to get some new ones, which means a trip to B&Q some time tomorrow..........Sigh!...... I suppose I can have a look at the vinyl and laminate flooring while I'm there!
What I would really like would be some floor covering made of smooth chipboard, which fitted together like the Loc-tite flooring does, and which I could varnish. We had something similar on the kitchen floor before we put down the cork tiles and I really liked the feeling of it. It felt soft, smooth and warm at the same time. In a way I would have liked to keep that as the kitchen flooring but it wasn't up to the heavy traffic you get in the kitchen; it would probably be fine for my room, though.
As it is, Morgan has ruined a large patch of the kitchen cork tiles by his habit of sticking one paw in the water bowl and pushing it around till he gets it in the position he wants. Unless the water is mopped up straight away it gets beneath the tiles and pushes them up slightly, which is exactly what has happened. Why he has this infuriating habit I don't know; neither of the other cats has ever done this. I shall definitely have to buy the kitties a water fountain, but it will have to be a really heavy one that Morgan can't drag about.
Charles and I went shopping to Morrison's this afternoon, as we had run out of several crucial things, one of which was bog paper.......can't do without that! I would be too terrified of blocking the drains to use cut up newspaper as my great granddad used to do. One of the compensations of having to go to Morrison's (hock! ptui!) is that I can buy the troops some ready made curry; today it was two for the price of one, so that was good. This meant that I was free to make myself some comforting and filling mushroom soup for my own dinner. I have enough left for another couple of bowlsful, too, so I think I shall freeze it for sometime I need comfort food.
I did A Very Bad Thing this afternoon. I bought a small box of Turkish delight thins, and I ate the lot. My blood sugar is probably through the roof. I am A Very Bad Person Indeed and I shall be frightened to weigh myself tomorrow.
I really must sort out a proper diet and stick to it. My only excuse is that I've been feeling so rough I just can't be bothered at the moment.
Oh well, I seem to have come to an interval in coughing. I'd better go to bed and try to get some sleep before it comes back. Oh! oh! I think it may be too late............
