Foreign Perspectives

We’ve been trying to get a new roof on the kitchen extension since way back in April but finally we seem close to having it done.

What took so long was that for reasons which completely escape us, we’d a terrible job getting a builder to even come and look at it. In fact, before we left for the summer we couldn’t get any at all and when we got back in September Wendy had pretty much worked our way through the phone book before we managed to get a couple to come out.

Of course, by this time the weather wasn’t that great and we didn’t get the two days in a row of reasonable weather in November that he needed to get the first part of the job done. All being well though he’ll be turning up tomorrow morning as the weather forecast is looking good.

Once those couple of days work are done the rest is “inside work” so the weather isn’t an issue so there’s a good chance that we’ll get that completed well before Christmas.

Which “just” leaves the insurance repairs that couldn’t be done ’til this bit was.

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A few years ago the answer would have been a clear “no” but the prices have dropped a lot since then which makes coffee makers a fairly affordable addition to your kitchen these days.

You don’t need to be an overlly serious coffee addict either. Even fairly casual drinkers will appreciate the difference that a proper coffee maker will make to the difference in the taste and, of course, you get that lovely coffee aroma throughout your house as well.

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Thanks to a couple of what are currently awkward problems with the house we’tre going to need to update a number of aspects of the house from the kitchen and bathroom through to the living room.

That means new stuff throughout with everything from modern furniture inthe living room to a nice new kitchen and bathroom (plus, probably, a few extra things too). I think its gonna be a busy couple of months choosing it all in the runup to Christmas!

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