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ailbheThe building work continues. Linnea's French lessons continue. The older two's swimming lessons continue -- Linnea has a new teacher, one lesson so far, whom she doesn't much like. We shall see.
We are all having A Cold. It's chesty cough, sore throat, sinus ick, earaches, the whole shebang. It's rattling through us in spirals, only Emer getting off fairly lightly. And Astrid, now that her cough is gone. I'm sure the building dust isn't helping.
We have stairs up to our attic! No banisters yet, so it's still blocked off, but we can climb up with a bit of effort. We're planning plug socket placement and lighting and things now. Rob has a built-in short wardrobe suitable for shirt-hanging, over the stairwell to save on floorspace.
Freegle has been clearing a lot of the waste which would otherwise go to landfill. Especially wood; untreated timber is very valuable to Freeglers with woodburning stoves. The old polystyrene loft insulation went that way too. Even some metalwork and nails, weirdly.
We're also clearing out the stuff which was in storage -- outgrown coats, ancient stained tshirts which had "years of wear in the yet," but are actually more suited to the rag recyclers, that sort of thing.
And we had the trike's gears and main brakes replaced. So it's now much easier to cycle and Rob has been doing recycling and storage runs, between coughing fits.
This coming week is a big one, building-wise -- plumbing, electrical, plasterboard, window-fitting, the final roofing, and maybe choosing and ordering flooring and paint. We have the toilets, sinks and shower already.
I'm trying to work out how to get home ed organised in such chaos. I cleaned the melted plastic out of the oven so Emer and I were able to do some baking, and we managed some acrylic painting one day, but it's pretty tough going.
We are all having A Cold. It's chesty cough, sore throat, sinus ick, earaches, the whole shebang. It's rattling through us in spirals, only Emer getting off fairly lightly. And Astrid, now that her cough is gone. I'm sure the building dust isn't helping.
We have stairs up to our attic! No banisters yet, so it's still blocked off, but we can climb up with a bit of effort. We're planning plug socket placement and lighting and things now. Rob has a built-in short wardrobe suitable for shirt-hanging, over the stairwell to save on floorspace.
Freegle has been clearing a lot of the waste which would otherwise go to landfill. Especially wood; untreated timber is very valuable to Freeglers with woodburning stoves. The old polystyrene loft insulation went that way too. Even some metalwork and nails, weirdly.
We're also clearing out the stuff which was in storage -- outgrown coats, ancient stained tshirts which had "years of wear in the yet," but are actually more suited to the rag recyclers, that sort of thing.
And we had the trike's gears and main brakes replaced. So it's now much easier to cycle and Rob has been doing recycling and storage runs, between coughing fits.
This coming week is a big one, building-wise -- plumbing, electrical, plasterboard, window-fitting, the final roofing, and maybe choosing and ordering flooring and paint. We have the toilets, sinks and shower already.
I'm trying to work out how to get home ed organised in such chaos. I cleaned the melted plastic out of the oven so Emer and I were able to do some baking, and we managed some acrylic painting one day, but it's pretty tough going.
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Date: 2013-10-06 02:06 pm (UTC)Modern pressure treated wood can be burnt, especially in a stove, as it is free of the worst of the nasties. I know I'm happy to burn it, but others are free to disagree. Wouldn't burn it in an open fire though.
When planning the socket placement always plan on more than you think you will need.
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Date: 2013-10-06 08:34 pm (UTC)