Plastered

Kitchen walls have been plastered, we used a company called ATM in Berkhamsted and they have been brilliant. They did what looks like a good job and kept everything clean and tidy.



Also took delivery of the worktops. Man they are heavy, I had to help bring them in, all part of the cheaper option ! they look really good. They are Oak and 40mm depth and currently 4 meters long ! i honestly thought I was going to pass out when I helped carry them. Gawd knows how the guy can do that all day long. Will take a picture on them in the morning.

Kitchen

Sorry for the lack of posts but the kitchen has been taking up most of my time !

It's been hard work but we are starting to see the end now.

Tiles have been taken off the wall. The tiles where put straight on the plaster boards rather then a skim so now we need new boards up.


The gas man has disconnect the hob so everything could be removed out, the Ikea bits have been delivered.


A new wood floor was installed last week.



New tiles laid on the floor over the weekend.



Needs a clean but gives you an idea.

Friday the plasterer is coming, as is the new worktops and in the mean time I need to sort the electrics out. Next week my father in law is coming down for a few days to help me and Mark the man to install worktops is out on Wednesday before the gas man connects the new hob on Thursday. Be glad when it is a week Friday and we can start to look at the finishing touches.

Looking forward to Friday.......

Beer, Beer, BEER

I have taken the above photo from flickr user Yyokota, I hope he does not mind and I have sent an email.

The reason for the use of the photo is because Max has started shouting beer at everything I drink ! I could be drinking water and he shouts beer , I could be drinking a coffee and he shouts beer. Ask him what i drink and he shouts beer !

I dont even drink that much beer, I prefer a nice red to be honest... although I did crack open some Foster twists and managed to have 4 in a hour because they were so refreshing. Not getting them again as they go too fast.

Now then....

Max drives us up North

We went to see our new niece yesterday up near Barnsley / Sheffield, we could not get Jasper in the kennel so we decided that we should buy a new tent and try camping with Max and the dog.

Had a great time although it got very cold and rained during the night. Only cost £5 for all of us and the dog ! Max thought it was great and really enjoyed being next to the chickens and sheep. He loved all the tractors !

My Niece is very cute and you just forget how small new borns are.

Max ready for bed?

On the way up we stopped just outside Loughborough at somewhere called Beacon Hill, Max found a chair made just for him !

King Max


I have also managed to rip all the tiles off the kitchen wall, had to call my plasterer up though to get him round to have another look because it looked a mess. I might also add that i did try and take the tiles off neatly.

Oh dear

He said it was not great and he will have to put new boards up before plastering over the top of those. He said that he could not believe that someone would put the boards up and tile straight over without any plaster. Must of been the original builders. I want nice straight clean walls with no tiles so need it sorted. The plasterer though has said he wont charge me more because I have given him time to sort it out :-) Will let you know what he is like. He is due 31st to do the job.

This week I have the units all coming from Ikea on Thursday and everything is still on track to be finished around the 7h September. Wish I could just crack on get it sorted but I cant get the plastering done prior.

New Niece

Say HELLO to my new niece. She is called Connie Isabel Crossfield. Not sure on the exact spellings !

She was born on Monday 6th at 07.50 and weighed in at 6lb12

Mike Reid

"G-g-g-g-go!"

"Runaround... now!"

Bit of a late post, I was sad to hear that the legend of a host on Runaround Mike Reid died.

He is better known though for this classic in Eastenders.



Nice to see though that a local band in Berkhamsted will still carry on... Bass player, Matt Tinsley, said "We will most definitely carry on under the name Frank Butcher and the slags. We feel as though Mike would of found it funny and would have recognised that we named it in good spirit. We are all fans of him." Catch him at their web page on myspace here Also read down the comments for a jpeg of the article.