Anyway, we did have some plans for today. My plans included catching up on some sleep, but that wasn't to be because the postman rang the doorbell at about 7.55am and I didn't succeed in going back to sleep for the 45 minutes or so until
Even so, getting up on Saturday is a leisurely task given that it's the one day in the week on which I don't usually have to be somewhere at a given time. One thing this means is that we can have proper showers, for example. Goodness knows how, but by the time we had got downstairs and
Going shopping always seems to take half the day, even though it can't be much more than an hour that we are actually in the supermarket. We didn't leave until after 12, and it was almost 2 when we got back. There is then the ritual of trying to fit everything in the fridge, and then it's
At about a quarter past 3, when all that had been taken care of, it was time to start getting all the waste cardboard out of the way by taking it to Redbridge recycling centre - which closes at 4.
When I got back from that,
When
I started with the curtain pole because, since this is in
The previous arrangement was a plastic curtain rail screwed to a long thin piece of wood; the latter is, I think, nailed to the wall (though it seems to be held on pretty securely). I've since noticed that in fact all the rooms with curtains have this piece of wood (for which there is, no doubt, an official name; but for now I'll just call it a plank). The old curtain rail had broken off, leaving four bits of plastic screwed to the plank. It wasn't too hard to remove those. My original plan was to fix the curtain pole holders to the plank, but I soon discovered that the plank is too narrow - there's just about room for the two screws which hold the holder up to go one each side of the plank without passing through it. However, there was a contingency plan, suggested by
Well, now I know what the plank is for! I tried several different drill-bits, several different positions of my body to get a bit more force into it, and both of the required locations for holes, but I could not get that drill to go into the wall. Of course it hit me just before I gave up that I'm trying to drill just above a window, so I'm probably trying to drill through a reinforced lintel - undoubtedly not a good move. The plank is there to give some extra depth so that you can drill through without hitting the lintel.
So no curtain pole. Not without a bigger plank of wood (or some different pole holders).
I started on the shelf. I measured up and started drilling the first hole when the doorbell rang. The pizza was received and a voice said "Are you coming down?" Of course the correct answer should have been "No - give me ten minutes," but instead I went down to eat my tea. And Papa Johns had sent
While trying to restack the fridge in order to find space to insert the left-over pizza, I was requested to fetch
So no shelf either - though at least this can be done tomorrow. I had to clear all the books off the bed, though.
(While
And then I put some washing away and made the bed.
I should be getting an early night, but since it's just taken me the best part of an hour to type this, it seems that's not going to happen either.
Oh, and this is our last free weekend before the QL party (although tomorrow isn't really free given that it is