Day Seventeen

February 20, 2013February 20, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ Leave a comment

Well, this is how it started upstairs today. Where’s the fabulous blue sky gone?

inside mid afternoon - roof on — inside mid afternoon – roof on

The new bathroom has started to arrive…

now, how does it all fit in the bathroom?

Mark and I spent half an hour today trying to work out how exactly the pieces will fit in the jigsaw of the bathroom. Think we’re nearly there. Tricky to imagine it with tiles and a proper floor.

banging the old drainage off the wall. — banging the old drainage pipes off the wall.

We needed some work done outside for the bathroom drainage. Mark had a rare time hacking and burning the old pipe off. My jasmine will never be the same but never mind. We just won’t mention exactly how the broadband went down for a while. Lucky the electrician happened to pop in just at the right moment or I wouldn’t be able to post today. Perfect timing.

Here’s a wee picture of our first daffodil to cheer you up, spring is coming, for sure.

Day Sixteen

February 19, 2013February 19, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 3 Comments

by lunchtime the outline of the new dormer was there

I left the subphotographer to record the proceedings today so I can’t really tell you how it went. I’ll simply show you what’s happened in my absence.

It is so good to see some construction rather than destruction happening. The dormer has really opened up the space at the front upstairs. This window will be shared by the two front bedrooms. Each bedroom will also have a Velux window.

It is a joy to report that today I finally finished ordering the downstairs bathroom. I have spent far too much time deciding exactly what to have in it. Phew, I’m done. We’re to have a bath, sink, toilet and a shower. Pretty standard issue bathroom in the end, it was deciding which one of each particular item to choose that took the time. There are so many variable factors that getting it all sorted is way more torturous than I remember from the last time we chose a bathroom. Can you believe I spent an hour and a half at a builders’ merchant this afternoon to sort out the shower, enclosure and tray? I thought I had it sorted before I went in! Anyway, that’s a good job done and hopefully choosing the rest will be a cinch.

Other Stuff

The subphotographer (my husband) thought you might like to know that he ran all the way home from Musselburgh yesterday. Pretty impressive. Ten miles – it took him an hour and a half and the best bit is he deliberately ran an extra few metres to make it the 10 miles exactly. Not bad eh!

Day Fifteen

February 18, 2013February 18, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 2 Comments

I really like it when I’ve been out all day and loads of visible change has happened when I get home. Great one today, the dormer has gone. It has been a glorious day and everything is going well. The alarm has gone downstairs now which means the upstairs can finally be finished at the back right corner. Some pipework has gone in for the upstairs bathroom and obviously the prep is all there for the new dormer. It is so bright up there, it’s brilliant, especially on a day like today.

I know a photo of pipes is pretty dull but I just have to record everything I can here.

Other Stuff

Yesterday was another brilliant day, we nipped out down to Portobello, Edinburgh’s seaside, for a quick walk with the dogs and then visited the Luca’s at Musselburgh. Great lunchtime food again, kids love it there too. When I got home I did something I’ve always wanted to do. At the last house I nurtured a compost heap for 8 years and never used the compost. The revelation yesterday was that I emptied one of the compost bins here and spread it on the ornamental cherry and some other places. I must say that Monty Don now has competition on his hands. I thought it was brilliant. I even took a picture of it for you.