This morn­ing, I had to go to my Mums to fetch an auto­matic washer for her. She’s acquired it from a friend of a friend, and wanted me to get it for her. I called at her place to meet up with some guy who was going to help. I picked him up and we went to fetch the washer. Ah ha! My mother seems to have neg­lected to men­tion that it is on the fourth floor, and there is no lift! We man­aged to get it down, me sweat­ing a little more than I should be for the effort involved, and into the car.
Back at my Mum’s house we dis­covered that it won’t actu­ally fit into the space she has for it. So she asked me to “Just chop a bit off the side of this cup­board”. Yeah right! I man­aged to con­vince her she needs to buy a nar­rower cup­board to replace the one she has now, as ‘chop­ping a bit off’ would be too dif­fi­cult. Even if it had fit­ted, she wouldn’t be able to use it: she has yet to arrange for someone to plumb the washer in!

Back home we had full house all day. All the kids from overnight, plus their par­ents, plus Paula, plus me and Jan. It got a little noisy and a bit stress­ful for me at times, but I coped.

We’ve got all the kids stay­ing tonight, Thom, Bekki, and Megan, along with Jamie. It got more than a little bit noisy earlier, but the girls are all asleep now, so things are quiet. Thom is watch­ing TV, but should be going to sleep soon.
Earlier, we had a lazy lie-in because Jamie had stayed over at her friend, Jess’ house. When we even­tu­ally got up in time for Jamie return­ing, I did some shop­ping, and finally got round to buy­ing a fix­ing kit for the rear view mir­ror in the car. It fell off a couple of weeks ago, and has been fall­ing off reg­u­larly ever since. I got it fixed on; the instruc­tions said to fix the back part first and hold it in place for a minute, then leave it 15 minutes before attach­ing the mir­ror. Unfor­tu­nately our mir­ror does not detach from the back, so I ended up hold­ing it in place for 10 minutes or so! By that time my arm was aching! I hope it was long enough.