What
a week this has been!
Monday was a bank holiday for May
1 (May Day), and I went round to see Paula Downing and
Nigel Naylor in the morning. They'd been to New
York City while I was in Athens, and we had a great deal of catching
up to do. From there I went to see Nicky Laube to take
her her birthday present, and then on out to Richard and
Liz Kirby's place. They were borrowing some suitcases from
me for their trip to Malta tomorrow. As always, we had
a nice visit. It was getting on in the afternoon, and Richard
was to be away for a football match in Manchester, and
Liz invited me to return for dinner, which I gladly accepted!
I went round about 7:30pm, and she had prepared a wonderful
salad, seafood lasagna and a delicious dessert! I came
home sated!
Tuesday was a work day, and we all greeted each other with
excitement and telling what all we had done over the long
weekend. Of course, some of us had seen each other on Saturday
at Angela's wedding, but it was nice to hear what everyone
had been doing the rest of the time. Also on Tuesday, I
had a call from my joiner, to tell me that a new person
was coming around to see if he could do my paint job! Hooray!
Well, he arrived, Terry Downes, Downes
Decorators, and
what a nice, personable person! He said he'd start on Thursday,
and he would finish on Saturday! I was so excited!!
I spent the rest of Tuesday evening and Wednesday after
work clearing out some things to make it easier for him
to move furniture, etc. to get to things. He was here,
and on Saturday his brother, Tom, came with him. They have
done a wonderful job! I am so pleased that they did it,
and the place looks so nice and clean!!
I didn't go out on Friday, as the painters were to be here
for 8am on Saturday, and sure enough they were. They finished
up about 7:30pm that day, and then we all sat down and
had a few beers. I'd been out for a large part of the day
running errands, visiting people, etc.
Today, Lil and Drew Sutton came in from Selby about 9:45am
to help move all the furniture out of the flat and into
the back of the offices of Corries,
just in front of me. What an undertaking, but it's cleared
for the carpet people to come tommorrow. Smart
Carpet will be here sometime Monday.
They are to call between 9:30am and 10am tommorrow and
let me know when they will be here.
My place is just a mess! The kitchen is piled up with
boxes, bags, etc., and the only furniture left is a small
table with a small TV on it and my sofabed. I will sleep
on that tonight, and then tomorrow we will roll the TV
and this computer out of here. Granted, after the furniture
comes back in and is all sorted, I still have all those
bags and boxes to unload! Days of work, after days of
work in the office! Oh well, it will all be worth it.
Hope your week has gone well. BY THE WAY!!! Chuck
Clausen,
who supports and maintains this website, will be traveling
in China from May 10 until May 29. Therefore, the updates
for this site just might be delayed. Not to worry. He's
a former "Maracucho", like me, and an ex-EBVer,
like me; so it will get done. Hey, were it not for him,
you'd never get all the pictures, links, etc!!!
Have a good one.
