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| Steph gets stuck in |
It's
probably time we did something for someone else and who better than for
my niece Steph and husband Sam in their new (to them) house in Dickens
Heath. With the team of Denise and Paul (grandma and grandad), Steph and Sam and with three month old Rory and Twinks the cat as audience we set to work.
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| Fence repairs |
Much
preparation had already been done by them all (and was still to be done
after we had left), so our help was useful (and extremely tiring -
we're just not used to it, how do they do it?), but a mere blip on the
mountain of work done and to be done. Working in a team is always fun,
singing along to old songs that S&S had never heard of, tuneless
whistling, oh the neighbours must have loved it!
They
seemed impressed with my fence repairs that did go very well and
presented few problems, but didn't deserve the lavish praise, just wait
till Steph sees the plant trampled under my foot, well, it did look like
a weed to me! Walls bashed and electrical sockets fitted and then up to
the loft with Sam to fit a loft ladder, some electric lights up there
and floor board half of it for storage. Always good to spend time with
people and particularly Sam who I didn't know that we'll, you find out
such interesting things. Found out he even applied to join
MI5 (am I allowed to write that?) but turned it down in his own mind
(before they turned him down by letter) due to the poor Civil Service
salary pay.
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| Hard working Paul |
'Did you want be a spy?' I asked and would the package have
additional perks like an expense account that paid for vodka martinis (shaken
not stirred), chips for the casino and use of a company Aston Martin as
per James Bond. Apparently not. Amazing what you find out while sitting
amongst wood shavings and loft
insulation while bashing you head on unnoticed beams of wood (why do
they put so much of it in odd placed up there?). Meanwhile downstairs
there's Rory to be fed, walls and ceilings to be painted, step ladders
to be climbed up and down innumerable times, gloss paint to be applied,
songs to be murdered and, oh, is that Twinks' little paw prints across that newly painted window shelf.
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| Sam in the newly boarded loft with his vacuum cleaner! |
All
in all, great fun, good to catch up with everyone and three days of
hard work. With muscles aching (two days after we finished) we're
getting ready to drive to Luton airport to pick up Jackies
dad and Elizabeth, here for a weekend party, we'll see them for one
night out before, before going on to Dartmoor for a drunken weekend of
walking and laughter with our friends. And my head is still feeling a
bit dull from our night out at the pub last night with Jackies mum Pauline in our home village of Alvechurch. Such a busy life!
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| Head massage for Rory from Jackie |
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| Tea break and Rory feeding time |
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| Evening glass of wine to celebrate |
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