The kitchen starts (or finishes ) here!

So - thanks to Wendy and Nigel - I have booked next year's holiday for Julia, Trisha and I.  We are trying a Warner Holiday and have booked Littlecote House - near Bath and Highclere Castle where Downton Abbey is filmed (guess where we will be visiting then?).  As well as being an historic location, the Country House has its own leisure centre and provides daily and evening activities as part of the package.  The price also includes breakfast and evening meal - sounds almost like a cruise on land!  To get the best price I had to go for one person having a double whilst two share a twin room - we will sort out who has what nearer the time - ironically it was the same price for each person!  Something to look forward to over the winter months and not far from where my parents currently live - now I wonder where the dogs would like to go on holiday - ahem.

Back to today and, frustratingly, I woke up with a massive headache which just wouldn't shift until I had taken two doses of paracetamol.  I am just hoping that this isn't because I reduced the dosage of my prescribed medication  on Saturday - I can't bear the thought of upping them again and therefore prolonging the time spent on them. It also didn't help that workmen have been drilling nearby - it seemed to go on for ever - but probably didn't of course!  However, and with stiff upper lip, the headache didn't get me down.  As I said before, this week my aim is to finish the kitchen and today's task was to sort the blind out.  If you have read this blog before you will recall a catalogue of errors which has, until today, left me with a blind that only works if I stand on a stool and roll it up every morning - I had lost the old "chain".  In the middle of the night, however, I had a flash of brilliance - rather than throwing the old one away I had put it in the washing basket - I know - my mind isn't normal!!  Problem sorted - blind now working.



One of the most commented upon items in recent blogs has been my wardrobe full of post-it notes with people regularly asking me if something is on a post it note.  Well I can report that two post-it notes for September have now been completed and today I finished a third - a Gail Pan Candle Mat from one of her simply Christmas books.  The fourth post it note will be some fridge towels - in green to match the blind.  I'm using this tutorial.




After some lunch, a catch up with the recording of Downton Abbey from Sunday and a dog walk in the lovely autumnal sunshine, it was time to set to and finish scrubbing the Kitchen floor - not the most glamorous of tasks!.  You may recall that the tiles are pitted and hold the dirt - scrubbing the conservatory floor was time well spent and so I wanted to give the kitchen the same treatment.  I also like getting down on ground level and spotting those things that you often miss - look at the bottom of this radiator and the grime that's there - its because there used to be a dog cage in front of the radiator and therefore often got missed - yuk!  anyway - its grime free now - as are the kickboards at the bottom of the units.













Tuesday evening is my Patchwork class where we are attempting the Lone Star quilt - let's just say that I have done my homework but I fear there is worse to come!  I suspect that there are some difficult angles and joints to contend with.