What a tip

This is our dining room with all the hall and bedroom stuff stored till we get sorted.

A mixed day started well with a cheery WhatsApp catch up with Ailie in NZ, but then went downhill when the property maintenance company, sent by the insurance to put up the ceilings, phoned to say they’d not arrive till 10. They came at 10.15 and after measuring up asked where the nearest builder suppliers was. (They had the spec and should have known what was needed and brought it with them). It was a 30 mile round trip to Alnwick to get the stuff.

We had to give them a key as we had to go out to keep the pharmacist appointment in Newcastle, booked on-line yesterday. We left the car at #3 daughters and got the metro. I managed to get my bus pass to add on the annual metro pass for £24. It pays for itself in a few journeys.

After turning up in time we were told the pharmacist wasn’t there today and we shouldn’t have been able to book on line in that case. However the lad went on the phone to see if he could find someone elsewhere in town. (While he did that I was on my phone online checking out Whitley Bay as we go there tomorrow for Thomas’s 10th birthday.). However the lad came back and said if we got straight on the metro to Haymarket Linda in the Boots there would do it. She was lovely. So quick and efficient. That goodness we still have some EU people working here. We’d taken all our prescriptions list so that she had that info. Our information went via computer to their doctor and we could choose Maladron at £68 or doxycycline for £24. I chose the cheap one but Mr C opted for the Maladron as he’s concerned about the affect the sun might have.

He waited for the prescriptions while I got my merino base layer at Cotswold and some Trinny Xmas eyeshadow.

I got the metro to Chillingham road and walked to Adam’s to get my hair cut and Mr C picked me up.

The plasterers had left the scene by the time we got there just before 4pm. The plasterboard is up in the hall but not the bedroom. The hall wooden floor is in a terrible state - nothing put down to protect it. But it’s progress. Only taken 5 months so far!

What an old moany crone I’ve become.