What we've been doing
Some of you may be wondering why there have been less book lists recently. For one thing, we've been sorting out things around the house again after the upheaval of getting new windows. Still a fair bit to do in terms of moving books and bookcases back to where they belong. The question is where do they belong now - as we have received 12 large boxes of books to sell, and 16 small boxes, since the windows were installed (not to mention the 50 or so large boxes which had already come on hand in the few weeks before). To think that at the beginning of the summer we were wondering what we were going to catalogue next as we were just about completely up to date.
Anyway on Tuesday morning the plasterer/painter from the window company came and did some rendering outside and varnishing inside, so we were finally free to put up blinds. I've never done this before, and the installation of Venetian blinds (mini blinds) for the front bedroom and kitchen involved trimming the plastic slats to the correct length with a special cutter that we got from Argos along with the blinds. So that was Tuesday. This morning I worked on a form I needed to fill in in connection with my Open University studies for the next year (I'm hoping to finish a degree). And this afternoon I packed three boxes of books (over 23 kg packed) to send to Canada.
There are still more blinds to put up, and we have a carpet to put down in Abigail's new room as the old one is very worn. And the 80 boxes of books to catalogue!
