On This Day…
Sat here hoping the carpet man will turn up as promised although there is some doubt as I spoke with him a few weeks back now and they have a habit of forgetting. Here’s hoping.
Lindsay is suffering a cold and blaming me. I am accustomed to this feeling, so it is like water off a duck’s back!
What could go wrong at the weekend did.
On Friday, Jo’s sister rang with the news that her Dad had collapsed at home and was now in hospital. Little news cam on Friday and only slightly more on Saturday. Jo finally decided she should get up to Oxford Sunday afternoon and, whilst she got a low oil-level warning light and had to top that up, managed to get there and back safely and saw her Dad. he is likely to be in until at least Wednesday, so she may need to take another trip up later in the week.
Sunday morning was disastrous too. Not only did we have to get some of the carpets up and to the tip before Jo went to see her Dad, we also had to collect a dresser which Jo had won on EBay from someone about 12 miles away in Fareham. Arrived fine. The bottom half fitted in the car, but there was no way the top half would. That meant, delivery of the one half to home, fill the car with the carpets we had already taken up from the living room, passage and bedroom ready for the tip. Drive the car to Nick’s house to collect his van. Drive to Fareham with van to collect top half of unit. Deliver unit back home. Drive van back to Nick’s, collect car. Drive car to tip and clear carpets. drive car to Steve’s to collect drill to mix floor levelling compound and drive home. No wonder it was low on oil!
Managed to clear the games room on Sunday and after cutting what is a huge carpet into strips and loading it into the car for the tip, managed to fix the broken inspection trap in the floor with a piece of worktop. That leaves all the rooms that need to receive carpet today free, swept and ready.
Couple of thing did go right though. Managed to get two new outside lights up and wired and spent most of Saturday in the roof of the bottom living room. To the uninitiated, this will sound insignificant but here goes. The bottom living room has a ceiling light and two wall lights. The wall lights are permanently powered and have a pull cord on each one to switch them on and off. I hate that as you have to walk around the room to do it and once furniture is in it will be a pain. The ceiling light is operated from a single gang light switch by the entrance door. to complicate this light, it is 2-way, meaning there is another single gang switch by the patio doors, so you can switch that light on or off at either switch. This complicates the circuitry somewhat. Add to that the wall lights, which are powered from the same circuit and you have the idea.
To make the wall lights ‘switchable’, I would need to drop an extra 4-cored cable into the two single gang switches and make those switches two gang. I would also need to wire the wall lights so they too were 2-way! You can see from the picture above (click to enlarge) the original wiring diagram I scribbled. Imagine that with two extra 4-core cables and you get some idea why it took about two or three hours in the cramped confines of the loft! I had to dig out the old switch boxes to get the cable down the trunking inside the wall which meant some filling and remedial paint work but now, you would never know and it worked first time (yes, I’m surprised too)
Saints only managed a 1-1 draw away to Exeter and with it our chance of the play-offs probably went too, Poorsmouth lost 5-0 to Manchester United scoring three own goals to boot! We will see what this week brings with footy as we have an area final against MK Dons on Tuesday at our place for a place in the overall final at Wembley! Of course Saturday sees us at home to Poorsmouth in the 5th round of the FA Cup… fantastic and can’t wait!
On this day in history and last year…
Weather =
It’s bright but cold and set to be even colder
Mood meter =
It’s Monday isn’t it?
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