Lovely!

I promise!!! I will clean you everyday, I will protect you from Hubs bashing you about and spilling things on you. I will cook beautiful meals on you and always wipe you down after cooking. I love you!!!

Sad I know, but I have spent all my life making do and managing with cheaper or secondhand cookers. As you get older, the priorities change and I will not have to 'make do' any longer.

Isn't she beautiful!!!!

Hubs - in the calm before the storm

This is the hard part, taking the tiles of in order to make to old worktop light enough to move. This is the time for retail therapy and leave hubs to it. Might have to stay away for hours!!!! A girls got to do, what a girls got to do! I do hope he hoovers up afters (joke!!)

Ooohh bloomin lovely!

Isn't she lovely!!!! No more cold evenings sitting huddled up round the electric oil rad. We have our very own brand new 'Old Dutch'. Thinks I'm in love!!!!!

Its been a rotten cold miserable winter and this little baby is going to make our lives so much easier. She heats the rad up (40ft away) and bonus is that she keeps the hot water ticking over at a reasonable temp if left on long enough - I'm in heaven!!!

Old tiles - yuk!

This is the before picture of those awful tiles, they looked lovely when we first moved on. I think they were put on to enhance the kitchen just before it was sold. They were so impractical and never really felt clean cause it all gets into the cracks in the grout. Be glad to get rid of them - I will take a picture of the finish thing, but the washing up needs doing and I couldn't possibly take a picture of my dirty dishes - a girls got a reputation to keep you know!!!

Nearly there

Oh the joy of home cooking is just a few days away. Unfortunatly I have still managed to maintain my skills, so this means that the new cooker may get used instead of just looking good. It feels like we been 'managing' for such a long time, can't remember when we had a 'normal' day.

Well all the preps done and the boat is in the boat yard waiting for the gas locker to be done, chimney for the heater to be fitted and the diesel connected - not long now!!!!!

Summer time - Oooh can't wait

This is more like it - I had a lovely balcony garden where I used to live and I really miss it. I also used to work at a garden centre while at Peterborough, so I really got the bug for having a bit plant life around. So now the weather is doing a bit more of what it should, I thought I would add a bit of colour to my new home. Even though I say so myself, I think it looks the business.

It gets worse before it gets better!

All we are trying to do is put a new 'old dutch' heater in! Before you know it, the whole place looks like its been ransacked. I will be so glad when everything is back to normal. At least we managed to save the carpet and only had to replace the underlay. Though I think that at a future date, we may invest in a nice wood floor, but carpet is fine until we get the bank balance back on track.