Scheduling

Life is getting pretty busy. Luckily, most of this info is already on our calendar.

• Mon 13 Oct: sanding and varnishing the bathroom door - final coat.
• Tue 14 Oct: Swimming with Becky at 19:15.
• Wed 15 Oct: Dancing with Rob at 20:00
• Thu 16 Oct: Janice's birthday
• Wed 22 Oct: Dentist appt at 11:45 am; dancing with Rob at 20:00.
• Sat 01 Nov: My birthday; dinner with Rob's parents unless they cancel
• Sat 08 Nov: KatherineF possible visit
• Thu 13 Nov: Fly to Ireland to visit my sister in Donegal
• Tue 18 Nov: Fly home again
• Fri 05 Dec: Fly to Barcelona to visit a friend
• Sun 07 Dec: Fly home again
• Sat 20 Dec: Fly to Ireland to spend Christmas with my Mum
• Sun 28 Dec: Fly home again.

All this means that I have the following free weekends to take Rob Christmas shopping: 25 Oct, 22 Nov, 29 Nov, 13 Dec. And those are the only weekends we have for DIY projects and so on, too. And one of those weekends is for Aoife to visit us in.

We're a bit busy. But all the flying has to be done by week 29, so we have very little we can reschedule!

Done-Todo

Done:

• Found a dentist and made an appointment.
• Rearranged furniture in the main bedroom to increase floorspace and make it possible to get a cot in there.
• Lots of laundry.
• Some washing up.
• Firmed up schedule for the foreseeable future; I have no free time.
• Considered money-borrowing options for getting gas heaters repaired and loft converted pre-April. We probably have options available. Certainly people keep sending us "Borrow Money Now" stuff, and some of it is from reputable banks.

Todo:

• Get to Council offices and apply for (a) Passport to Leisure, and (b) visitors' parking permits.
• Call someone to repair the two broken gas heaters.
• Call the lovely roofer, if he ever answers his phone, to see about getting a skylight installed and maybe a hanging chimney removed.
• Go 'round the local charity shops looking for baby stuff; I may, if I'm careful, be able to get all the clothes we need there.
• Do another set of those daily exercises.
• Draw up a budget for all the DIY and paying other people to DI stuff that has to be done, and see how it fits with our household budget.
• Chase neighbour about gas smell. Having the windows closed all the time can't be healthy.