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Oct. 7th, 2017 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestI seem to have got into the habit of composing posts in my head and calling it done.
Since my last post… we have brought all our furniture back into the house. Yes, the 'summerhouse' is empty at last, ready for FIL to fill it with, er, whatever. She said, politely. As yet, the pictures have not yet been hung anywhere except the hall (where there were already hooks in place), butI've amused myself with sorting a bunch of family pix into a random arrangement for a rogues gallery on the landing. My computer is still in the dressing room—soon to be sent downstairs to the sitting room and replaced by my yarn stash and sewing box.
Beast has constructed, essentially, a pale greenish cream sideboard with glass doors out of discarded kitchen cupboards, into which will go the china that is older than I am. (My parents bought it in Hong Kong, and it's both beautiful and not dishwasher safe, so it doesn't see a lot of use even when it isn't enwrapped in several hundredweight of packing paper.) So the craft stuff is mostly hidden in the solid sideboards. Things are looking almost respectable!
Sadly, I must report that the chorus's Christmas concert posters are going to be one of the traditional designs. Sigh. I haven't actually made it to rehearsals since Camp, as my cold, which recedes during the day (allowing me to cart furniture across the garden, for example), comes back in gale force during the evenings. I have spent much of the last half hour trying to exhale a lung.
Oh, yeah, and we got a letter from the surveyor's insurance people saying they are about to send us a cheque for two thirds of the money the Ombudsman says we're entitled to. Which is cheering.
Since my last post… we have brought all our furniture back into the house. Yes, the 'summerhouse' is empty at last, ready for FIL to fill it with, er, whatever. She said, politely. As yet, the pictures have not yet been hung anywhere except the hall (where there were already hooks in place), butI've amused myself with sorting a bunch of family pix into a random arrangement for a rogues gallery on the landing. My computer is still in the dressing room—soon to be sent downstairs to the sitting room and replaced by my yarn stash and sewing box.
Beast has constructed, essentially, a pale greenish cream sideboard with glass doors out of discarded kitchen cupboards, into which will go the china that is older than I am. (My parents bought it in Hong Kong, and it's both beautiful and not dishwasher safe, so it doesn't see a lot of use even when it isn't enwrapped in several hundredweight of packing paper.) So the craft stuff is mostly hidden in the solid sideboards. Things are looking almost respectable!
Sadly, I must report that the chorus's Christmas concert posters are going to be one of the traditional designs. Sigh. I haven't actually made it to rehearsals since Camp, as my cold, which recedes during the day (allowing me to cart furniture across the garden, for example), comes back in gale force during the evenings. I have spent much of the last half hour trying to exhale a lung.
Oh, yeah, and we got a letter from the surveyor's insurance people saying they are about to send us a cheque for two thirds of the money the Ombudsman says we're entitled to. Which is cheering.
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Date: 2017-10-08 09:48 am (UTC)Also I much enjoyed the Avengers bit of the Superhero Medley! :D
Also just as a sidenote, I really like how I can practically hear you saying all the things you write. It's almost like being in the same room! Hee.
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Date: 2017-10-09 08:27 am (UTC)In my case, I think the posts would all be updates on what we got tidied up, mended or otherwise sorted, and that's going to get dull!
My little superhero quartet! Yes. They are very cute.
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Date: 2017-10-08 03:16 pm (UTC)Hopefully the summerhouse won't be filled with bags.
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Date: 2017-10-09 08:28 am (UTC)We have a tidy lounge now, with pictures hanging in it!
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Date: 2017-10-10 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-10-11 07:32 pm (UTC)How boring of your chorus. I hope your cold is better by now.
Money, yay!
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Date: 2017-10-14 07:10 pm (UTC)The house sounds delightful - and excellently coming together - I hope you do, too, your cold sounds entirely miserable.