Uhoh, we are bad neighbours.

[ailbhe]

The laminate is almost done and Rob started nailing a bit of skirting board back on so we can move the furniture back. After 11:30 pm. The neighbour banged on the wall and we stopped as soon as we heard the banging - that is, I heard the banging, and Rob stopped as soon as he heard me saying "Stop! Stop, no now, I mean it, stop!"

Also, it woke Emer up, hurrah.

So now I need to go out and buy chocolates tomorrow to give the neighbour. It's a horrible thing to have done, though I think I feel it more strongly than Rob does. I don't think he's ever been on the other side of the wall, as it were.

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BUT the laminate is almost ALL done and now all we need to do is replace the skirting board, move the furniture back, hoover, and put the books and DVDs and CDs back on the shelves and reconnect the two halves of the unit and re-string all the wires between the various complicated parts of the "watching prerecorded stuff or listening to music" kit.

Tomorrow I need to call the doctor and say I think I need another week's supply of antibiotics, and then see what I can do about childcare for 10 am to 12:45 pm on Monday 21st. Tomorrow should be a good day - the house is full of food because the market was today and so we went shopping. I left my glasses in Dublin so I can't cycle so Rob did that part.

The most complicated part of the laminate was the set of four boards which needed to be slotted on to the previous row when three of them had to line up with something - the angle of the bay window, the right-angle of the alcove next to the bay window, the radiator pipe. Other than that it was just the usual ends-against-unstraight-walls thing.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

It's not a horrible thing to have done. It's a mildly thoughtless thing to have done, and if you don't do it often, it's not a big deal. Still, the chocolates are a nice touch.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Having been on both sides of the wall, I can sympathise with both you and the neighbour (the guilt and the despair!). Chocolates would be a nice gesture.

PS it's nice to have you back!

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Andy was drilling holes in our bathroom wall after 9pm on Sunday & I was annoyed, as I'm the one at home during the day & I'll get the potential complaints.

Sometimes, he needs to engage his brain ..

[niallm.livejournal.com]

We found the glasses. Round tuits now being sought.

[ailbhe]

I think we brought all Dublin's tuits home with us and used them to lay the floor. Rob was afire with enthusiasm for it, even.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

The chocolates are very nice of you. I've been there, for not even such a good reason (one of my roommates likes watching TV loudly and works second shift, and doesn't care that the others of us are the ones the neighbors will yell at the next day).