Well, there have been quite a lot of goings-on here lately. The latest of which is having our (rather ancient) boiler replaced. To add to the excitement they don’t make the kind we had before (a back boiler behind the gas fire in the lounge) so the new one (which should be loads more efficient) is going into the utility room, but it does mean having new pipework to connect it to everything else. Hence, due to concrete floors downstairs, and therefore having to put the pipes through the ceiling, the floorboards have had to come up in both our spare bedrooms, although luckily not all the boards, just about half of each room.
Up until last week both of the spare rooms were fairly full of yarn (and other assorted bits and pieces), which has now all gone for a nice holiday to a storage unit a few miles away. It is rather distressing not to be surrounded by all my stash, although I did make up for it by having a load of undyed yarn from Bluefaced arrive on Tuesday, which is now sitting in its box in the middle of the lounge 🙂
Luckily we have 24hr access to the storage unit, so if it all becomes too awful I can run down there and stroke it all. I am going to take the opportunity to have a bit of a sort out when it all comes back again too (it went there in rather a rush so I didn’t get much sorted on the way out). I have managed to give away 8 cones of chenille to people at the Reading knitting group on Saturday, so I am making a start!
We are currently on our third day of no heating, and second day with no hot water. The kettle is getting a good workout! It has been a bit cold over night, but I am wearing my warmest knitted jumper and it is ok. I am missing the hot water a lot more. It took me 20 mins this morning to boil enough kettles and saucepans to have a not-terribly-warm bath about 4 inches deep, and then another couple of kettles to wash my hair in the washbasin. I have learnt from when we had our bathroom replaced that it is more comfortable to wash your hair in the bathroom washbasin than the kitchen sink, since it is a better height, and you don’t run the risk of bashing your head on the kitchen cupboards 🙂 Hopefully all being well it should be finished later today.
While it all goes on I have been doing a bit of City and Guilds sample homework (although with frequent breaks because the latest couple of samples have been hurting my hands) and sorting out some of my photos. So hopefully more blog posts with actual photos soon!
Oh good grief, that sounds horrendous! I hated it when most of my stash was still in Newark and I was down south! If you fancy a trip to Slough (?!?!) there’s a shower here…
Dear me, hope it doesn’t take too long; when we moved into our house, I had this great idea of renovating all the rooms at once (one after the other), so we wouldn’t have to spread the work for too long. Luckily we had friends almost next door that didn’t mind us using the shower in their house for a couple of weeks.
I thought we might get to see a bit of spinning too! I want to see some photos of your stash when it all comes back…it sounds huge, how do you keep track of it all?
It’s been surprising cold without heating this week But at least we’ve got hot water. Boiling kettles for a bath is no fun.
Oh how horrible! It’s the ideal opportunity though to sift through and reorganise the stash. I find it difficult to do that due to lack of space! I hope you kept some stash for knitting with as well! It’s also horrible to have no heating and hot water. Only for a short while though!