Quick Round Up

Vic and I are both Pro-War. As this is a quick round up, I'll keep it at that for now: go read the 100,000 new "The Madness of [King] George" blogs that will have undoubtably appeared over the last two weeks if you want war coverage.

We've bought a digital camera so (a) Vic can use it in her web design projects and (b) I can take some "flick-book" style photos of her growing bump. A visual diary of our pregnancy.

Vic wants to take up knitting.

We've ripped the kitchen out. Back to the brickwork. I managed to saw through a pipe whilst the mains water was still on. It was pressurised and a HOT water pipe. You don't know how much fun it is sticking your hand over the end of a hot pipe, feeling the water get hotter and hotter and watching the bucket below filling rapidly. I confess that I did indeed shout at Vic to go and turn the stop-cock off...

The plasterers have made good. I need to damp-proof the floor, level it with compound and fit some sort of flooring -- either quarry tiles or lino -- before the fitters arrive in two weeks time. That's two weeks of salads, one-pot meals and take-aways.

In the meantime we're off to Sara and Stashers for the weekend: to catch up, give them their Christmas present (!) and escape the dust.