Things never quite turn out how you plan. In the end we didn't go to the party or to the Arboretum. Instead, Saturday was spent doing laundry and a bit of shopping for birthday presents etc. Sunday was a different matter. I woke up and decided to finally swap the sitting room and dining room round as Sonia had suggested before Xmas.
First problem - how to move the TV, NTL box, video and DVD? Obvious solution: Dig under the stairs for the cable and connectors that were bought last year for this purpose and make extension cables for TV aerial and NTL cable.
Second problem - how to get the cables from front room wall to new TV position in back room? Trailing cables around the walls and through two doors was not an option so it was up with half the carpet in the living room and then up with a few floor boards to feed the cables. Drilling a couple of holes and then the judicious use of carbon fibre interlinked tent poles, blue rope and a pair of long barbeque tongs meant we soon had the two cables running below the floor boards to their new position in the former dining room. A quick connection up and check showed that the TV and NTL box worked.
Third problem - how to move a dining table from the back room to the front room, and move a 3 seater sofa from the front room to the back room? Brute force and careful angling (and the lifting of the back room door of it's hinges when it got jammed) were the order of the day. Only complaint from Sonia came when she was under the sofa in the hall way and I asked her to hold it while I removed the door. Other than that it went smoothly.
We then had a clear out of books, moved the videos and DVDs around, and decided that the front room carpet could go back down for now as we'll now need to decorate the front room. The late afternoon included a trip to deliver the birthday presents before collapsing on the sofa for the evening.
Monday morning was spent in town buying a new vacuum cleaner and net curtains for the front room (didn't need them when it was a sitting room but now it's a dining room we eat our breakfast in there and the public doesn't need/want to see us first thing in the morning...). After attacking the meadow at the top of the garden for 45 minutes I had got about two thirds of it down from knee to ankle height when the rain started. I'm a coward and decided to stop using the electric strimmer, so I've still got some more strimming to look forward to next week.
After lunch we headed over to Norfolk as I'm planning to help my Dad paint his flat roof tomorrow if the rain holds off. Popped in to see him at the golf club where he was helping run a Juniors Competition. The early evening was spent helping him set up a Flikr account so that he can share his photos with family in Australia. We seem to have got that sorted and while he's gone off to watch a bit of TV with Mum and Sonia I'm typing this lot up.
Oh well, time to be sociable with the rest of the family. Let's see if drinks are being served. To quote my mother "The sun is over the yard arm somewhere in the world"
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