Roses are Red...

Well in this case, yellow (a beautiful bunch brought by Anne when she came for lunch on Monday) but it was such a murky, grey day today I decided to make them monotone.

Up early and downstairs by 8am to await the delivery of our dining room chairs.  They were to come between 8am and midday and yes you've guessed right, 12.05 they arrived.  

They are boxed and shrink wrapped on a pallet.  The delivery guy wanted to leave them outside!  No chance.  He managed to get the pallet into the garage.

I popped to the health centre for a blood test to check my thyroid.  I am not the easiest person to get blood from and sure enough, the poor nurse inserted the needle into what she thought was a dead cert and got nothing.  She did the usual wiggling about of the needle.  Still nothing.  She undid the tourniquet in advance of withdrawing the needle to have another go, and the blood flowed!  She was astonished.  She said she'd never seen that before.  I am such a freak!  :-))

Spent a chunk of the afternoon upstairs sorting out my side of the chest of drawers and through a pile of clothes.  There are now two massive black bags.  One for the charity shop and one for the clothes bank.

H the builder popped in this afternoon with tile samples for the utility room so hopefully the tiler will be here on Friday (I am secretly hoping tomorrow) to start laying the floor tiles and tiling the splash back.  This utility room is taking way longer to complete than I thought it would.  I am more than ready for it all to be over now! 

David is working late tonight.  His retirement celebrations have begun.  Senior management team went out for lunch today to a rather nice seafood restaurant in St Andrews, tomorrow afternoon it the afternoon of Ritual Humiliation that everyone who leaves has to go through.  There's home baking and a quiz and speeches, all designed to be mortifying to the person leaving.  Then on Friday night it's his official retirement night out.  Thankfully he's staying overnight in St Andrews for that!