We have now lived in our new house for just over four weeks. We manoeuvre around the boxes that remain unopened. We carefully tread around the tools from the work men that are still around every other day. We put up with the mess they make and the dust on our clean clothes. The curtains made of newspapers are very yellow by now and there are large pieces of garbage scattered around the house since we forgot the pick-up appointment with the council. The mess is infuriating at times and the amount of work still to be done daunting, but we love it.
Slowly everything is finding its place and the house is coming together. We have been large-scale users of bin liners and the house is looking better every day. Not in the last place because we had Jonny's parents staying over for a few days. That forced us to get a bit more organised quickly. At least cosmetically, since it mainly involved moving boxes around.
Jonny and his dad put the immensely heavy glass doors on our new Pax cupboard, his dad put the first plants in our garden and his mum got her hands on our dirty counter top after chasing our Polish builders away. Although born in England, Polish was my mother in law's first language. So she told them in Polish not to put their dirty things on the freshly cleaned surface. It must have quite shocked them, but it worked!
We are now still waiting for our ADSL-connection. For the last month we have been using a dial-up connection. It takes ages to load up pages with anything other than plain text and it feels like we have been catapulted back to the early nineties. Tomorrow we should have ADSL again so that will be a weekend full of serving the internet! Or would that be the internet serving us?
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