Our First Flat

Summer tidy-up - Garden and Garage

Since the baby is due any day now (well, in the next 4-6 weeks anyway) we thought it would be a good idea to make a little more space in the garage - you never know when another kind relative will drop off a spare cot or moses basket! So Henry set to work cleaning up the garage, and a heavily-pregnant Sara decided that the garden needed weeding. We followed a day of hard work with the first barbecue of the season - WAY later than last year's first BBQ (April I believe) but hopefully the first of many to come...

Let's have a garage party!

So we finally decided that we couldn't have the garage powered by that crappy extension cable coming from the house any more, and got the electricians in to sort out a proper power supply. Luckily, they were able to use the existing consumer unit that Mark gave us and fitted way back on Day 16, and could plumb that in to our existing electrical box of tricks in the lounge. So all that really required doing was to thread the cable from the garage under the patio (which we luckily did when we laid the slabs on day Day 571) and then through the 1st floor. However, this did then mean we had to move most of the furniture from the spare room and our bedroom, so it wasn't as simple as we'd have hoped.

It's all sorted now though, and they've hidden the cabling quite well where they could (we should really have laid it under the steps when we built them, but hey - you can't win them all!).

In to the depths of the garage we go...

This was Mark's second day of being extremely helpful, and while Sara drove off to her school Environmental Day for the morning, Mark and Henry set off to the garage to spread their magic. Despite horrendouse hangovers on everybody's part, they managed to not only fit a new consumer unit in the garage, but also to wire up 2 strip lights (one over where the car would go, and one for Henry's future workbench!). They also fixed the doorframe to stop it jamming, and generally improved what was a pretty rubbish waste of space.

In the afternoon, before Mark headed back up north, we all went out to Reading town centre to meet Ben, Katy and William for lunch. We dined at Old Orleans (albeit very slowly - the Christmas shopping rush strikes again!) and had a very nice time, although William got a bit confused by a balloon Henry gave him. He liked the ribbon it was attached to though!!