70 Days to Go...

This blogging malarky is exhausting when you have to do two in one day!!! 

This morning we decided to go on a tool shopping spree so that John could get trowels and things to take out to Cyprus on Wednesday.  I insisted that we stopped off in town and got some suitcase scales (our bathroom ones having died) because John's bag is apparently The Tardis and he keeps shoving more and more stuff in.  Bearing in mind that he has a machete in the bag - all properly packaged I know - the last thing he wants is for his bag to be pulled.  I dont think "it'll be fine" will wash with the EasyJet check-in staff - I have seen those Airport programmes and all the staff are rottweillers (apart from the gay one that looks like Tin Tin).  Trowel shopping has the appeal of pulling my finger nails out one by one so I sat outside in the car rather than go into Screwfix.  John came back armed with plumbobs and trowels and mortar finishing tools and not a pair of shoes in sight.

We then decided to take a trip down to the the Old Creamery to see if we could find a slightly bigger dining table just in case we get all the people visiting us who say they are coming.  We have been thinking about it for ages and just couldnt make our minds up so went and had a look.  An expensive mistake as we came home with not only a dining table but two extra chairs and a bloody great reclaimed wooden door.  We are hoping that the wooden door will become the entrance into Villa 10b and it is lovely and was a bargain!! Bless the hearse as we managed to get it all home in two trips.  Now I have a dining table to sell - any takers??

We caught up with Catherine and Steven this evening and their friends Abi and Nick who will become temporary neighbours when we squat in the Navy Flat in Ilch for our final week.  We went for a really nice meal in the Ilchester Arms.  Our diets will have to start in May when we are on a weevil and a biscuit in Droushia as from now on we seem to be eating out at every opportunity.  Tomorrow we are off to Sidmouth for a five-course lunch with Frank and Kate.  Tomorrow's blog will have all the details - I need to slacken off my waistband and lie down!