House Renovations

They got underway on January 29th and have been stressful, way more so than was ever sold to us!

On one particular day the house was so worked on that we couldn’t actually live here. We’d already had to leave for the day, that was made clear to us. The woman acting as our liaison is a patronising bitch and, in my mind, most likely a former social worker! The project has been allowed to fall behind and then she had a long weekend off.

 

 

 

This was how it started off looking, this is just with the kitchen removed. Not too horrendous, it was still useable anyway.

We had already moved most things into other parts of the house so just needed the fridge, sink and cooker to be connected.

The floor tiles were meant to have been removed by now but that didn’t happen as the Asbestos (ASBO Man as they seem to call him and his team) Surveyor said they had asbestos underneath. Turned out they didn’t but this was after the destruction team left them to the ASBO team who then left it because there was no asbestos.

The walls were stripped but not very well so the plasterers had to dry line all the walls and plaster over that to sort the room out again

 

 

 

 

 

This is what our lounge is like, indeed, most rooms in the house are similar with only the bare essentials left out of boxes.

Of course, the stupid manager didn’t let us know they had to change all the light fittings, she said they wouldn’t so we placed everything underneath them. This caused the electricians some real issues so things got broken, that and she’d allocated the same amount of time as she normally would to a 3 bedroom house. As this has 5 bedrooms and an extra reception room, it was a stupid deadline that they couldn’t keep to and they did try.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, the result is, carefully stacked boxes were toppled and things cascaded and fell to the floor and broke. The manager was being totally unrealistic and not communicating adequately. We had no clue what was going on most of the time, the written schedule had long since become useless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, on our worst day we came home past the kids bed time at 6:30pm to discover the house uninhabitable. Loose wired, carpets up, the contents of our loft thrown onto beds, dirt everywhere, we just couldn’t get it cleaned at all let alone in time to sleep. Thankfully, Sue and Fred amazingly took us in, Adam gave up his bed, we were really grateful for that otherwise we’d have had to fun a hotel.

 

We are now one week into this and the light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. The double glazing is in, though badly, so still needs to be made good. The bathroom is in but, wonky and broken so needs to be made good. The tiles are nearly up from the kitchen, so someone is coming back to make that good.  Holes for the new extractor fans were drilled and covered up again by the plasterers! Tomorrow we have the central heating being replaced, double glazing checked by the boss man, floor totally removed from kitchen, plastering done, and something else I have forgotten!

Wednesday the kitchen is meant to be going in, I think that’s a little optimistic.

Daisy and me had a short break Saturday when I took her to see Sleeping Beauty, the ballet in Milton Keynes. I thought it was amazing, I think Daisy did too.

I am missing seeing some of my friends, Tyler in particular, he always makes me laugh. Many others I just want to chill with too, just so little time.

House Renovations

They got underway on January 29th and have been stressful, way more so than was ever sold to us!

On one particular day the house was so worked on that we couldn’t actually live here. We’d already had to leave for the day, that was made clear to us. The woman acting as our liaison is a patronising bitch and, in my mind, most likely a former social worker! The project has been allowed to fall behind and then she had a long weekend off.

 

 

 

This was how it started off looking, this is just with the kitchen removed. Not too horrendous, it was still useable anyway.

We had already moved most things into other parts of the house so just needed the fridge, sink and cooker to be connected.

The floor tiles were meant to have been removed by now but that didn’t happen as the Asbestos (ASBO Man as they seem to call him and his team) Surveyor said they had asbestos underneath. Turned out they didn’t but this was after the destruction team left them to the ASBO team who then left it because there was no asbestos.

The walls were stripped but not very well so the plasterers had to dry line all the walls and plaster over that to sort the room out again

 

 

 

 

 

This is what our lounge is like, indeed, most rooms in the house are similar with only the bare essentials left out of boxes.

Of course, the stupid manager didn’t let us know they had to change all the light fittings, she said they wouldn’t so we placed everything underneath them. This caused the electricians some real issues so things got broken, that and she’d allocated the same amount of time as she normally would to a 3 bedroom house. As this has 5 bedrooms and an extra reception room, it was a stupid deadline that they couldn’t keep to and they did try.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, the result is, carefully stacked boxes were toppled and things cascaded and fell to the floor and broke. The manager was being totally unrealistic and not communicating adequately. We had no clue what was going on most of the time, the written schedule had long since become useless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, on our worst day we came home past the kids bed time at 6:30pm to discover the house uninhabitable. Loose wired, carpets up, the contents of our loft thrown onto beds, dirt everywhere, we just couldn’t get it cleaned at all let alone in time to sleep. Thankfully, Sue and Fred amazingly took us in, Adam gave up his bed, we were really grateful for that otherwise we’d have had to fun a hotel.

 

We are now one week into this and the light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. The double glazing is in, though badly, so still needs to be made good. The bathroom is in but, wonky and broken so needs to be made good. The tiles are nearly up from the kitchen, so someone is coming back to make that good.  Holes for the new extractor fans were drilled and covered up again by the plasterers! Tomorrow we have the central heating being replaced, double glazing checked by the boss man, floor totally removed from kitchen, plastering done, and something else I have forgotten!

Wednesday the kitchen is meant to be going in, I think that’s a little optimistic.

Daisy and me had a short break Saturday when I took her to see Sleeping Beauty, the ballet in Milton Keynes. I thought it was amazing, I think Daisy did too.

I am missing seeing some of my friends, Tyler in particular, he always makes me laugh. Many others I just want to chill with too, just so little time.

An open apology

I have been really vocal lately about friends, what they’ve done or, what I consider they haven’t done. If I am honest, when I have been hurting, and, this past year I’ve had plenty of reasons to be hurting, I have felt ‘some’ of the people I consider friends ‘could’ have made a better effort. But, I accept that maybe they didn’t realise just how bad things were getting and, of course, they do have their own issues too.

 

One particular person I have been quite tough on. I feel, as clearly I wrote enough to identify him that I owe Adam an apology and, quite likely, his family too.

 

Adam is a lovely person with a kind heart, ‘I’ have caused difficulties between us this past year. Yes, it is true to say that Adam is ageist and that has been one of the issues, my refusal to accept his viewpoint. He is entitled to the way he thinks whether I agree or not, it’s none of my business really. So, it’s me who screwed up things there, I should never have pushed for anything other than what there was which was us getting along because I happened to be Daisy’s dad and his mum’s friend. I so need to observe people more and actually listen to what they are saying and stop assuming that anyone and everyone is going to automatically want to be my bestest buddy! I would one day like to be friends with Adam, close friends because I think we have a huge amount in common but, I don’t have the right and neither should I have pushed it. So, sorry Adam for being a dick and sorry too to Sue, Fred and Charlotte for what has probably got back there now too.

 

I get so much right but, now and then, I royally fuck up! Who knows, one day my brain may actually catch up with my body.

 

Hopefully this apology is OK, I thought making it public and making myself look stupid was the right thing to do seeing as my previous comments were public too.

 

I love that family too much me thinks.

An open apology

I have been really vocal lately about friends, what they’ve done or, what I consider they haven’t done. If I am honest, when I have been hurting, and, this past year I’ve had plenty of reasons to be hurting, I have felt ‘some’ of the people I consider friends ‘could’ have made a better effort. But, I accept that maybe they didn’t realise just how bad things were getting and, of course, they do have their own issues too.

 

One particular person I have been quite tough on. I feel, as clearly I wrote enough to identify him that I owe Adam an apology and, quite likely, his family too.

 

Adam is a lovely person with a kind heart, ‘I’ have caused difficulties between us this past year. Yes, it is true to say that Adam is ageist and that has been one of the issues, my refusal to accept his viewpoint. He is entitled to the way he thinks whether I agree or not, it’s none of my business really. So, it’s me who screwed up things there, I should never have pushed for anything other than what there was which was us getting along because I happened to be Daisy’s dad and his mum’s friend. I so need to observe people more and actually listen to what they are saying and stop assuming that anyone and everyone is going to automatically want to be my bestest buddy! I would one day like to be friends with Adam, close friends because I think we have a huge amount in common but, I don’t have the right and neither should I have pushed it. So, sorry Adam for being a dick and sorry too to Sue, Fred and Charlotte for what has probably got back there now too.

 

I get so much right but, now and then, I royally fuck up! Who knows, one day my brain may actually catch up with my body.

 

Hopefully this apology is OK, I thought making it public and making myself look stupid was the right thing to do seeing as my previous comments were public too.

 

I love that family too much me thinks.

Monday Update

Hmm, well, after the Facebook fun of last night I only got one moaning minnie who couldn’t handle the volume of notifications!

 

I think I might decide not to be gay … or straight or anything else, it’s all too much aggro for my liking! If I did religion I may become a monk but, as religion seems to be the only hobby they are allowed, it might get a little boring!

 

Sex, I have decided, is over rated, or, at least, such is my experience of it. A lot of thinking for not a lot of satisfaction. I am not entirely sure if that is sex generally or whether my experience of it has just not been what it should be. I am told it gets better with the right guy but, I’m a little concerned that if it’s crap with all the wrong guys then eventually my nether regions are just going to go on strike in protest! Why are bodies so complex? Why do some guys seem to have (or say they have) amazing sex whether they are sober, pissed or plastering the walls with polyfilla?

 

Money yes, well, I had some, now I don’t, such is life, belt tightening for a month or so. Either I’ve miscalculated somewhere or I am owed a lot of money!

 

I keep using different fonts yet, I think it’ll just be seen as Times New Roman cos, unless someone has the font on their system, it will revert to default.

 

If finances recover I am going to grab a short break, most likely with someone I barely know, I want to do something insane.

 

Ah yes, I set up an event on Facebook! I fancied a party but, trouble with that is, the last one was totally pants and I always end up clearing the mess so, how amazing is this … party at the local pub just under 5 minutes walk away! It’s a great evening even if just two of us go and even better if anyone joins us, a win, win situation I reckon. If you are not on Facebook and want to go along, you wouldn’t be getting this if I didn’t care loads about you so, come along anyway. Even friends recently removed from Facebook, that doesn’t mean I don’t want to be friends it means more a case of, we need to start again, redefine the friendship, decide if you want one or not because, friendships are investments in our future, they need to be looked after.

 

The snow looked pretty, it’s on its way out now until Friday so, that was that!

 

Hey, get Spotify!

 

I will get my Galaxy S3 back soon, hopefully before the S4 comes out!

 

Did online shopping … loved that one of the items suggested to us was ‘sanity towels’ … LOL! I think we all need some of those.

Monday Update

Hmm, well, after the Facebook fun of last night I only got one moaning minnie who couldn’t handle the volume of notifications!

 

I think I might decide not to be gay … or straight or anything else, it’s all too much aggro for my liking! If I did religion I may become a monk but, as religion seems to be the only hobby they are allowed, it might get a little boring!

 

Sex, I have decided, is over rated, or, at least, such is my experience of it. A lot of thinking for not a lot of satisfaction. I am not entirely sure if that is sex generally or whether my experience of it has just not been what it should be. I am told it gets better with the right guy but, I’m a little concerned that if it’s crap with all the wrong guys then eventually my nether regions are just going to go on strike in protest! Why are bodies so complex? Why do some guys seem to have (or say they have) amazing sex whether they are sober, pissed or plastering the walls with polyfilla?

 

Money yes, well, I had some, now I don’t, such is life, belt tightening for a month or so. Either I’ve miscalculated somewhere or I am owed a lot of money!

 

I keep using different fonts yet, I think it’ll just be seen as Times New Roman cos, unless someone has the font on their system, it will revert to default.

 

If finances recover I am going to grab a short break, most likely with someone I barely know, I want to do something insane.

 

Ah yes, I set up an event on Facebook! I fancied a party but, trouble with that is, the last one was totally pants and I always end up clearing the mess so, how amazing is this … party at the local pub just under 5 minutes walk away! It’s a great evening even if just two of us go and even better if anyone joins us, a win, win situation I reckon. If you are not on Facebook and want to go along, you wouldn’t be getting this if I didn’t care loads about you so, come along anyway. Even friends recently removed from Facebook, that doesn’t mean I don’t want to be friends it means more a case of, we need to start again, redefine the friendship, decide if you want one or not because, friendships are investments in our future, they need to be looked after.

 

The snow looked pretty, it’s on its way out now until Friday so, that was that!

 

Hey, get Spotify!

 

I will get my Galaxy S3 back soon, hopefully before the S4 comes out!

 

Did online shopping … loved that one of the items suggested to us was ‘sanity towels’ … LOL! I think we all need some of those.

Facebook!

Just had the best evening on Facebook ever! Well, I enjoyed it. Chatted to loads of people, we shared song tastes and pictures and it was really lovely

Facebook!

Just had the best evening on Facebook ever! Well, I enjoyed it. Chatted to loads of people, we shared song tastes and pictures and it was really lovely