Micks Distractions

Well, it’s the first week of being in the new house. We’ve all been pretty much sick, the place looks like a bomb has hit it, it’s been rain­ing, (mud every­where), and we still don’t have our shower going, (just the bath at the moment). So we’re glad to be back in our own house.
Con­se­quently, I haven’t had a chance to do much. Just a bit here and there. The fin­ish­ing off bits always take the most time. I went and got a load of mer­anti mould­ings to fin­ish the bath­rooms off and have been busy with that.
I didn’t end up get­ting a dingo back in to level off the ground, and will do that in a cou­ple of weeks.

Well, the house isn’t fin­ished, but we’ve moved in — just in time for Christ­mas! I have sorted out my insur­ance issue, (man­aged to find one com­pany that will insure us for con­tents with­out our tem­po­rary occu­pa­tion cer­tifi­cate — no-one else would). We have a fully func­tional kitchen, par­tially func­tional bath­rooms, (the shower doesn’t quite go yet — we have pegs avail­able at the front door for sen­si­tive noses ) ). We have also shifted half of our ship­ping con­tainer into the house. So we’re almost there. It’ll be a rough Christ­mas, but a memo­ri­able one.
I spent the week­end fin­ish­ing off our bath­rooms as much as I could. We decided to have the coun­try look to our bath­rooms by putting in painted half height pan­elling. I’ll whack up a photo when I can find my cam­era.

Aaaaaargh. I inad­ver­tantly deleted a whole swag of pic­tures from the 08/11 to the 19/11. These were mostly pic­tures of me and the plumber doing the drains out the front. I deleted them by mis­take when I was trans­fer­ring them off the cam­era box. Oh well. I should have done them when I was more awake.

Our tiler was busy on other jobs and wouldn’t be able to do all of our job. So I made a deal with him that he could set the lev­els and do the floor­ing if I did the wall tiles. I was up to 0400 this morn­ing tiling. It was an ardu­ous expe­ri­ence. Hav­ing to get tiles set in three planes, (yaw, pitch and roll). and also it’s posi­tion is very hard. I ended up doing sort of a rea­son­able job of it.
Con­se­quently that’s one thing I don’t want to do again.

Back on to the trench­ing. We

chucked in the pipes,

had the odd smoko,

thought about how lit­tle money we have now, and

put in the ag pipe.
Later we filled in the trench and half cov­ered the pipes ready for inspec­tion.