Having got the house in to a perfectly livable state, we today played host to our second dinner party, this time in the shape of Henry's brother Ben, his wife Katy and little William - Henry's first nephew. Obviously this isn't strictly house-related shots, but William is damned cute so I'm posting them anyway!! :)
Having dropped Ali off at the station after a monster fry-up, Henry and Sara spent the remainder of the day tidying up the flat and moving things back in to the living room. We also went down to Wicked and bought some new skirting boards, which will be fitted once they've been primed, and finished off the last bit of the flooring. Too tired to do much else, they spent the rest of the afternoon having a rest!
Having suitably recovered from their hangovers, Sara and Henry's first job of the day was to drive round all of the bed shops in Reading trying to find a mattress that would get delivered some time this side of Christmas. After at least half a dozen "January 15th"'s, good old Bensons for Beds came up trumps and we are now due a Mattress this Wednesday.
The rest of the day was spent removing the carpet, scraping and cleaning the concrete floor, laying underlay (e-pa e-pa!) and finally laying the new laminate floor. It all went surprisingly well, so long as you ignore the fact that we ended up a pack short and had to go back the next morning for one more box. With the new floor laid we moved some furniture back, and treated ourselves to a Chinese and more beers. Plus some breakdancing, but I won't go in to that...
Yesterday Ali King arrived in Reading, fresh and raring to tackle some of our more laborious projects. Having got drunk the night before, we weren't quite as raring, and definitely not as fresh - but none the less we soldiered on and achieved quite a bit. Despite what it looks like from the photos, Henry was helping too (Sara was at work) but we did consider at one point that perhaps we should change the name of this site to "www.come-and-help-us-do-work-on-our-flat-and-we'll-pay-you-in-beer-and-put-you-on-the-web.com" but changed our mind thankfully - we'd never attract any more helpers with that kind of attitude... :)
In the course of the day we managed to rip down what remained of the skanky wardrobe in the spare bedroom, move the futon in to the space and assemble the new bed which was delivered that morning. We weren't in for quite the night's sleep we had hoped for though, as stupid old MFI just "forgot" to deliver our matress, so we had to resort to the airbed until we could find another matress.
The day ended the same was as the previous evening - drinking beer and watching DVDs. Some of us managed to stay up until 1.30am, others fell asleep earlier (no surprises there!!)
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