Changing Plans

In the last week, we’ve had the following stuff at the house…

• Last Friday – water leak under the sink  (fixed that evening) – kitchen water completely off
• Weekend – doing all the floor tiles
• Monday – another (different) water leak under the sink – water turned completely off
• Tuesday – water leak fixed
• Wednesday – Power cut off, due to EDF doing work on power supply in village
• Wednesday – No gas going to brand new gas cooker. Nothing at all – both bottles are full, no kinks in the pipe, nothing blocked. Auto-shutoff on the cooker seems to be OK. But there’s no gas.
• Thursday – still no gas to cooker
• Friday – ditto

There’s an engineer visit booked for tomorrow to check the cooker.

So all told, over this week my sense of humour has utterly failed, which is never a good sign.

As a result, and with plenty of other outstanding jobs to do, we’ve taken the decision to move our break from next week to [some other time] (although we’re as yet undecided to when) and we’ll spend the week at home instead, sorting out some of the outstanding stuff, and taking time out that way instead.

Luckily the people at Scottish Country Cottages have been lovely, and allowed us to change the booking at very short notice – we explained the situation, and they’ve been very understanding.

In the current situation I can’t deny, I’m actually happier to not be going – I wasn’t massively looking forward to the drive, and I think we’d both be focussing on what was happening at home, plus what we could be doing at home instead of being up in Scotland. That happened two years ago, and was the final point for us coming home early from Devon.

So we’re at home instead of in Scotland. There’s still pre-written posts to come during the week, but I’ll be adding in random stuff too. Probably.