two blog posts in a day show you the extent of my
B O R E D O M !
We have wandered up to town with Ellie doing town training, she is improving. Getting home I got all dynamical, (not to be recommended in my weaken state!) thinking about our second kitchen, alright Ellie’s bedroom and how it would be. We pulled her princess and the pea bed out and investigated the cupboard. What a buggers muddle this cottage is. It could oh so easily be renamed
‘Cock Up Cottage.’ Everything we uncover is a bodge, the kitchen lights are on the blink and buzzing, an electrician cometh!
In the nick of time because we have unearthed this vipers nest of wires and boxes!
The fireplace is in a state of collopse, the stairs are, well just creaking steps with a wool carpet that hides the homes of millions of moth larvae. The stains of the aforesaid string vest that passes as carpet rival my wall map of the canals of England and far more interesting... sorry Ian!
While the husband snoozes in the chair I climb the walls, well I would do if the flaking lathe and plaster could take my weight?
My mind whirls with ideas, his with dreams!
Oh the joys of life in lockdown.
The description of your stairs reminds me of mine here when I moved in. Risers of different heights, creaking and a fitted carpet to cover it all up. The risers made me feel ill, 18* followed by a 12" followed by a 9". To cut a long story short, under the carpet were orange boxes, forgot that bit. Anyway to cut a long story short I had it replaced and at least got my equilibrium back. I still plan to paint it in Mexican colours and one day when I am feeling perfectly free of the past three years I'll do it. It is currently pine and at least it is all equal. Thanks L, I share with your pain.
ReplyDeleteIt is a blooming wonder you didn’t fall through the orange boxes. I love the sound of the Mexican colour scheme Rachel. Every day it seems we find another bodge up, I wouldn’t mind but she was terribly upper crust, butter wouldn’t melt in the mouth type of vendor!
DeleteYour stairs remind me of an old Austin 7 I bought, it was pop riveted together with bits of old tin signs and carpet. That’s a story for another day.
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I am pleased to say that it is the only total bodge up I have found in the house and it still greatly confounds me seeing as the staircase is a very important part of a two storey house. It is totally out of character with all the rest. Your post today made me quite tearful. We are not alone.
DeleteAt least it is old bodges.
ReplyDeleteYoungest son lives in a council house, and they had work done by the council...something that was being done to a few on their scheme.
They got so annoyed at the shoddy work, workers being employed to do things they weren't skilled to do...his wife insisted on the job being signed off before it was finished, so that he could undo some of their work and finish it properly before they made a complete hash of it. The council took three goes to level a floor and it still isn't right!
That wiring does look awful!
They must be an apprenticeship for bodges and very successful it is too. The species creeps over the country leaving havoc in their wake.
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Our house was not a pretty sight when we bought it either. The ceiling roof fell down on top of our dog - he was fine if traumatised! We had no kitchen to speak of, a twin tub lid as the only worktop and a fifties cupboard, the type with a folding down table top and sliding doors, and the piece de resistance, the chimney breasts had been removed in both our bedroom and the bedroom next to it but they had shoved all the rubble into the space below the floor which in turn allowed dampness to jump above the damp proof course and we discovered this about 6 months after we moved in because I opened the fitted wardrobes one day and noticed things moving in my shoes. We had fitted wardrobes along the outside wall in both ours and the next room (our only storage space) and both had to be dismantled and a new wall built when Rentokil told us we had no inner wall, which is why our wardrobes were riddled with damp mites! These are just a few of the nightmares we came across when we moved here! We're still here though so its all good in the end as I'm sure it will be for you too! x
ReplyDeleteSounded like Old Mother Shipton’s Cave MG! Now morphed into Old Mother MG’s Cave, all mod cons naturally, not a stalagmite in sight?
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You would be facing these repairs, covid or no. The last house I bought was pretty much the same.
ReplyDeleteCovid just makes it difficult to get cracking on finding folk. Not only a decent one, but one at all? It will be worth it in the long run... maybe?
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All good self-employed tradesmen here have continued to work through Covid. I suspect your area is the same.
DeleteYes Rachel, some have and we are looking forward to a tradesman or two crossing the threshold this week. Things are looking up.
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As a "lockdownee" (but not one of those lockdownee trustees who may roam the country with impunity) I must say that the canal itself can look a tad... over-familiar at times. I am desperate for the link to the canals of Mars to open, so that I may scarper.
ReplyDeleteMay I state for the record that I love the notion of a bedroom for the dog. En-suite, perhaps. No, seriously!
After this virus has done its stuff, airlines will be so desperate for travellers they will surely consider day trips to Mars, not a 100% sure of what the quarantine regs are though? Their luggage allowance might not safely cover the ole tug, excess baggage will need to be paid. And Ian have you thought the Martians might have dogs too?
DeleteEllie’s bedroom is already en-suite, she chooses not to use it though!
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Well isolated in a home too large for me I feel your pain. I bought a cottage in Whitby years ago and my son in law 'did it up'. It turned out beautiful in the end, as I am sure yours will. I had tartan carpets to contend with and stairs so narrow and twisting that getting anything up was a nightmare. But it did have a 'coffin drop' turned into a cupboard.
ReplyDeleteThe light at the end of the tunnel is the idea of getting it exactly how I would like it. Himself is just happy for a quiet life. I love the ‘coffin drop’ cupboard, sounds fun, don’t you just love old properties?
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