Friday, November 02, 2007

Domestic-Executive on the move

After all the angst and aggravation the ceremonial changing of the locks took place yesterday. Whilst the architect and project manager drove off I turned to see the smiley faces of three painters, two barn builders, an electrician and three cleaners......you must be pleased they said!

Yes and no! But mostly yes. Should we have given them another week to complete the fiddly bits? Not on your life – given the fact that the snagging list is about 8 pages long it will take them till this time next year to get things sorted out. Whilst we'll continue to live with dust, muck and builders for weeks to come it is at least our home and we'll be where we want to be.

I'm surrounded by boxes here in Khandallah and there's that chilly echo you get when you've taken everything out of a room. MT had an interested day. There were 5 lady packers that whipped around the house like a tornado. I think if he had stood still long enough that they would have packed him.

It made me smile as he retold his stories for the day over dinner out across at Taste (our friendly suburban diner over the road). He asked the packers to leave out tea from the food cupboard – they did. The tin of "weird" teas, green, camomile etc, we keep for visitors. Not sure that the psychology of male packers is the same! I woke up in the night worrying whether they had packed the tools for Dyson but I knew I could count on lady packers – blokes wouldn't have known what they were and would have stuffed them in a box.

So far the only casualties are my knees (scrubbing floors) and a vase from Spain which has already been broken once before. Me thinks that this vase doesn't have good karma. Still, I'll keep the bits and see if we can stick it back together.

Anyway, bloggers this may be the last entry for a couple of days unless of course we get the technology working poste haste. I think that there is a fair chance that we'll be surfing the net tonight as MT plans to don his electrician's hat and started to help Wayne on site to get the networking up and running. His boys' toys are packed and ready for the move – we might not have a kitchen but by next Wednesday we'll have a home entertainment system installed!

The job squad trainers were concerned I wouldn't be getting enough exercise this coming week – what do you think?

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