I hope you're all well. It's Saturday and I'm at home on a Saturday for the first time since we moved. I usually work on a Saturday morning but it's exeat weekend so I'm home and it's great despite the horrible foggy weather that has been hanging around all day.
Hubby and I both have the day off so we had a lie in this morning and had tea and biscuits in bed - a rare treat. Then I took the dog out and hubby set to sanding down and trying to repair our old wooden cd cabinet which was quite expensive back in the day but which has always been cursed with drawers that get stuck and become immovable. We have had the cabinet for at least ten years so the fact the hubby is having a go at sorting it out is testament to his new attitude - he sees this house move as a new part of our lives and he wants to do things differently. Long may it continue!
However, one thing that hasn't changed is hubby's tendency to spread his clothes around the bedrooms, depositing various items in every wardrobe or cupboard space available.
It's something that he has always done. Whenever we stay away, be it for a night or for 2 weeks, the very first thing he does when he gets into the room is unpack his bag and stake his claim for space. I, on the other hand, am quite happy to leave my clothes in the holiday suitcase and take things out as I need them. So, currently, our bedroom wardrobe is over half full with his clothes and he has hung his work stuff in a cupboard in another bedroom and he will not.entertain the thought of having all of his clothes in one place. Weird, eh?
The other thing he has done is claim one of the spare rooms as an office. This is fine. What has amazed me is that he thinks it's 'his' office i.e. nothing that belongs to me or anyone else has a place in 'his'office and must be removed or amalgamated into his stuff! Yesterday he was asking me to put all of my paperwork in his files so that we could get rid of some clutter, I refused but took my stuff out of the office in a huff only to find that he had later replaced my folders with more of his own. Men! Got to love them!!
On a different note, I have finally had my hair cut today, in a new salon that has just opened in the village and which was offering 20% discount for the day. I haven't had my hair cut in ages so it was a pleasure to get it done. I feel so much better for it. I had toyed with letting my hair grow longer and see what I thought and I actually DID resist the temptation to cut my own fringe ( which I have done several times and which is always a disaster). So, a good haircut, a good stylist and a cup of coffee and a biscuit and I'm happy! Happy Saturday to me.
Another issue for me this week has been curtains. I am absolutely dreadful at measuring up for curtains. I know how to do it, I've done it many, many times, but I always seem to get it wrong.
Our house has lots of good curtain rails but the previous owners took all of their curtains with them so I have been measuring the windows and writing down said measurements and trying to find curtains that will fit. I did order a couple of pairs on line which were OK but we decided to go and buy some decent quality ones for downstairs.
So, after trying various superstores plus TK Maxx and Matalan, only to find that they only sell curtains online, we found a curtain shop in Waterlooville that was perfect. I had all my measurements with me. One of the window measurements is relatively 'normal', the other is a little less so but curtains of a limited choice of style and pattern etc were still available. We pondered for ages looking at the choices available to us and me, with my lack of concept of what something will look like in a certain place without actually seeing it, just going with my gut reaction while hubby was much more deliberate.
Eventually, we chose a pair of curtains for the sitting room that were going to be too wide really but would just have lots of pleats(!) and a perfect pair for the 'family'room that is waiting for its new sofa bed to arrive. When we got home the curtains for the sitting room are actually perfect and the ones for the family room are completely wrong. They were packaged up and labelled perfectly but, somehow, between us, we managed to get a pair of curtains that are at least 3 times longer than we need. I have no idea how we made that mistake. Next week I shall be going back to the curtain shop again and just hope that they have the curtains that we want in stock.
I'm sure that all of this is relatively boring to read for which I apologise. I could write about the stranger who was round the side of our house the other evening and who, the police say, was probably only put off of attempting a robbery because the dog was barking loudly when he realised there was someone in the garden. That same day a house down the road from us was burgled and it's a pretty big coincidence that both things happened in the same road on the same day. I actually saw the person exit from the side of the house and walk past the front door. I opened the door but he didn't stop. I didn't call after him because I knew that, whatever reason he had for being on our property, it wasn't positive.
Our big, stupid, smelly dog probably saved the day. Harvey, the hero!
I have also had a week of discovering more of the local area courtesy of walking our 'hero'. I have found several new fairly short 'road'walks and been told about some cracking places to go for Harvey's longer walks, not just at Butser. I have taken a few pics while I have been out and about so I will leave you with a few of them.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Much love xx
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