charmax | Jul. 2nd, 2005

If any of you were wondering.

The work has finally started on my bathroom and kitchen. It is so disruptive. I have water and electric back in the kitchen now, after they left me without it overnight on Thursday. Unfortunately because they pulled the tiles off the floor, leaving a sticky residue, I can't get in there to use the cooker anyway. Hopefully it will be sorted on Monday when they are due back. I can at least use the bathroom but that isn't finished either. They spend a lot of time apparently doing nothing these workmen. The place is driving me nuts at the moment. Nothing is where it normally is and there is nowhere to store anything so it is all just cluttering up the floor. I have no idea where I will put everything when my living room furniture arrives.

Still no workmen today so I can slob around and devote the entire day to watching Live8 on the TV. Once upon a time I would have been on my way to Edinburgh, with my placard, for the Make Poverty History rally. These days’ campaigns have to make do with me writing strongly worded letters to my MP and banners on my website. I miss my radical youth!

It is difficult to get access to my computer amid all the chaos but hopefully I will be able to catch up after next week when fingers crossed the workmen will have finished and I will take a short break from decorating before embarking on the uncharted territory of laying carpet.

Other stuff -

My neighbour's nervous breakdown finally came to the attention of the relevant authorities and he was carted away in an ambulance along with what seemed like a rather excessive police presence. A number of the neighbours were openly staring. No curtain twitching for them, oh no, they came out of their houses to get a better view. A shame they weren't more interested when he was going quietly mad for all those months. He is going to have to come back knowing people were enjoying a show at his expense. I feel sorry for him he is a nice guy who let life get the better of him.

My mother-in-law has been told it will cost her £2000 to re-paint the outside of her house! This seems completely over priced to me. They were expecting it to be no more than £800 which is a lot more reasonable. If they have to fork out that much money it will be more or less the last of their retirement money.

Sassy has finally been given a full arm cast. It's a pretty one in a lovely shade of purple. lol

I never made it to Pride this year. From what I've heard from everyone else they had a ball.

We have another new furry visitor to the house who is in a worse state than Buff. I really don't know if it's going to make it much longer. I think it is probably beyond our help. We've named him Spike. :(

I've not done any art for a while but I have done 2 more vidbites which you can view from here. The first one is Jenny from the L Word and the second is Sun and Jin from Lost.

I will catch up with you all soon. Have a good weekend. :)