I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.

     

I didn't really have much planned for today except a possible from Lisa to come and do some brush cutting but I didn't hear anything and she never showed up but the day turned out to be quite busy despite that. I'd forgotten about having bought the new wall lights yesterday and that they would need to be installed and Lorna was keen to get on with it so that was the first task. The old ones were either fallen off already or attatched with only one screw straight into the plaster or the plasterboard so they were easy to get off. The whole process, though somewhat fiddly in places went surprisingly smoothly and we had all the new lights attached and ready for the moment of truth. The first attempt fused the circuit. That was when I remembered the archaic wiring in this house and that we don't have trip switches, we have the ones which you have to poke a bit of wire the right size into. To my great relief the appropriate wire was in the fuse box cupboard and after pulling out all the fuses at least twice I found the one that had gone and we got the wire replaced. We had taken the bulb out of the light which had seemed to be the offending one but the circuit fused again. At that point we took the light off the wall and found a wire that had come astray in the process of fixing it to the wall, reatached it, mended the fuse wire again and then everything worked, hooray.

After that I had to deal with the new sofa bed which was still in the car. I thought I could get away with minimal furniture rearangement which would only involving one bookcase which, it turned out, I could just about drag across the floor by myself without removing the books. That done I asked Lorna to help me carry in the sofa, I wasn't going to try and be all butch and carry it in by myself because if I did drop it (and let's face it, I would have dropped it) it would be into the mud and that was not what I wanted. It fitted where it was supposed to go but when it turned into a bed the foot end of it was six inches from the fire, possibly safe enough but not when you bring in the factor of stray bedding. So then I spent several hours rearranging in a much more major way. I swung a really big bookcase round ninety degrees and pushed all the other furniture up towards it, then moved another bookcase and then the sofa. Then I didn't like the big bookcase where it was and had to swap it with the first one that I'd moved. At that point I had to take some of the books off and then put them back on and all that palava. It's amazing what a mess I can create when I'm just reorganising things. Did I say mess? total chaos might be more apt. I did get it all cleared up in the end and even got the hoover out afterwards. I've been ever so lazy about the hoovering since I got the dustbuster, well ok, I've always been lazy about the hoovering but it's worse now. The poor cat, who had suffered the indignity of being dragged around the room on several bookcase where she had been napping and then on an armchair finally gave up and moved to the kitchen when I started up the hoover and a great cloud of dust engulfed both of us. I gave up being domesticated after that and sat down with a magazine for a while before dinner.

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