Say what?

The plasterer, who was due to start on Monday, forgot about us. Forgot about us!! How on earth does someone forget about us? Honestly. On the bright side, he started today and it looks great so far ... good enough that I'm not even going to whinge that the house smells like wees (from the lime in the gib compound apparently).

Other redec progress is as follows ...

The electricians have been and gone and forgotten to send us a bill. Woohoo! No doubt they'll work that out pretty quickly, but in the meantime I'll live in hope. Le sparkies put the much needed extractor fan above the shower in the bathroom and my only gripes are that said fan comes with a very bright light which is a bit rough at 6am when you've just woken up, and also the husband has taken great delight in pointing out that now the shower looks like a display case. Pervy bastard that he is, he finds this inordinately funny. Me? I'm getting a builder in to put a lock on the bathroom door. We also had the power point for the fridge moved so that it now lives at the back of the fridge cavity (behind the fridge) instead of at the side. We have a fridge-hole in the wall which the fridge almost fills (it's a seriously tight squeeze - we even had to remove the skirting to wiggle it in there), so there's never been enough room to plug the fridge in where it should be - we've been running an extension cord into the pantry for 4 years. Various new kitchen power points were added to. Very exciting. We just need the new kitchen now ...

Speaking of which ...the kitchen design has been finalised (including redoing the pantry/scullery) and the quote gave us a collective heart attack. Enough said. The kitchen is booked to go in towards the end of January. Happy joy.

The accessories for the bathroom and toilet are all sorted. Towel rail, robe hooks, toilet roll holder. The bathroom is finally completely finished! The toilet is no where even close, but has a nice shiny (double!!) toilet roll holder at least.

Bedspreads for the bedrooms have finally been chosen and cost a fortune, but I swear the money was worth it just so I didn't have to look at any more duvet covers and bedspreads. Bless you Harrowset & Hall for providing all the help a girl could want, as well as stocking scrummy linen. And, as always, the big finger to the unhelpful ponce at Emma Lea who just looked at my wall colour and curtain samples and told me I'd never find anything to match, then proceeded to tell me that I should have chosen my duvet first and decorated around that. I wonder if he'd have been more helpful if he had a crystal ball and saw how many dollars Harrowset & Hall was on the receiving end of ... Plus, seriously, what an arse - who does that? Decorates around the least expensive furnishing in a room? (and, erm ... no offence if any of you have done that ... ahem)

Two sets of curtains have come back, and they look so cool. I'm busting for the plasterer to finish so I can hang them up. The other two sets have gone off for altering now too, and are due back early next year.

We've got the blinds for the kitchen and the weird shaped window in the end guest room which proved a 'mare to find a curtain for. We were going for cedar/wooden blinds but it turns out they cost lots and our windows are all weird shapes apparently. So, hats off to Freedom Furniture for their eco blinds which are recycled plastic and wood, cost a fraction of wooden blinds and are designed to be cut to fit. Oh, and yay for their pre-Christmas sale too which made it even more economical. Kind of sets off the Harrowset & Hall visit. Slightly. That's what I'm telling the husband anyway.

The first lot of insulation went in last week (1x internal wall), and you saw yesterday what happened with the second lot. Ahem. We'll give that another go at the weekend and hope for a slightly less messy result. I have to say though that the stuff we already have in is great.

The plumber didn't turn up. Why doesn't that surprise me?