Well folks, its been a busy couple of weeks, We had a few days off, and spent the weekend striping and repainting the garage door, I broke many nails and totally ruined my nail varnish. Then we spent the next 2 days having a massive throw out time, we binned loads of old stuff, and stuff we've never used, and took it all down the rubbish dump. Yes, we did as much recycling as possible. Also sorted some clothes and other odds and ends, and deposited them at the cancer research shop. Then after three hard days work, we treated ourselves to watching 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. A very moving film, I got a but weepy, but I think it was more because the star of the show ages throughout the film from about 6 years old to probably mid 20's. In her earliest form, she was the spitting image of my eldest daughter when she was 6. It was terribly spooky.
We also had a couple of estate agents in to value our little abode, and then we went and looked at a very large house, that is within our price range, and only because its in quite a bad state of repair. We both said the house is just ideal from room sizes and the number and location of rooms, its just we would have to spend a good few days clearing up the grime of the previous occupiers before we could start to live in a Couple of rooms. Then I am guessing it would take at least 6 months to decorate the place to make it more homely. There is some superficial exterior work that needs to be done, but nothing I couldn't get organized (I don't do heights, so somebody else can so that).
We also went to a new restaurant in Northampton called Occo on Derngate. A very nice Moroccan and Lebanese restaurant. We didn't really now what to have, so fortunately, they provide an 'experience dinner' where you get lots of samples of the food, it was absolutely great.
No comments:
Post a Comment