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Hello again ….just thought for the sake of completion I would add the final news
Today we accepted an offer on the old house ….our bare minimum but that’s the market today I guess. We had good interest in the four weeks and six offers to consider …
We are now looking for the next project …one option being studied is a six bedroom house to convert into student accommodation for rent .
…and there may be another blog too
Have a great 2013 everyone !
a message in a bottle….
You’ve read the blog and or the book…or bits of it maybe…now see the movie !
its here http://youtu.be/MGxZ8_MoFPw
….if you don’t want to watch it all can I recommend the four minutes from 11 to 15 …….oh and the last three minutes are good too …
We have finished most of the odd jobs and there will be a For Sale sign up on Tuesday 27th …
Thanks again and bye bye……………..
we’ve come a long long way together
through the bad times and the good ……
I want to pay tribute to Jenny ….the lovely and very remarkable woman who I love …..where she goes I will follow. She went to Kenwyn Road …..
Jenny is driven to succeed and more often than not does so ….and not by luck but by sheer honest hard work . She has the valuable gifts of foresight , logic and patience. If she doesn’t know how to achieve a task she will find out , think it out and then carry it out. Jenny does not fail …..simple. In other words she is all the things I am not. Yet we make a perfect team because I am the other side of the see saw and it is balanced. I don’t really know what I am but it works for us …..and long may it do so .
we’re off into the sunset now with the music of The Who in the background dedicated to my wife Jenny .
Listening to you I get the music.
Gazing at you I get the heat.
Following you I climb the mountain.
I get excitement at your feet!
Right behind you I see the millions.
On you I see the glory.
From you I get opinions.
From you I get the story.
Listening to you I get the music.
Gazing at you I get the heat.
Following you I climb the mountain.
I get excitement at your feet!
Thank you everyone who has taken the trouble to read my blog as I wrote it , and Thank you for reading my book……hope you enjoyed it…….
a very pleasing outcome ……
The door is open ! Welcome to the house ……
Well that’s it bar the shouting ! The list of odd jobs grew today but I won’t be boring you with those……so we are at the end.
We spent the day pottering, cleaning and clearing our rubbish out . Then two Estate Agents visited and gave us very positive feedback. The valuation makes it all worthwhile…..
A very big Thank You to Team Kenwyn , superbly led by Jenny . They are all mentioned in this blog and to a person have done a great job.
Jenny and myself are completely and utterly knackered but happy .
Whilst the house is for sale we will be nipping down often to keep it warm and do those final touches …I will also create a video record of the project
and there’s just one more person to pay tribute to ………………………
days like these …..
These are good days ….like the last week before Christmas Day.
Jenny was always confident right from the start we would get here , I certainly was not . I only understand that confidence now . All it needed was hard work .
The list of jobs left to do looks like this …
Fit smoke alarms, Paint Fireplace hearth , Clean up and clear out …….
I never thought the day would arrive when I could say ….the entire house inside and outside has been Painted ! The porch entrance was last …
and as you see the door is on too . That’s because all the doors are on ! It just gets better and better ……
So after I paint the last bit of the Fireplace …
I will be cleaning up with Jenny and we can go home …….to sleep for a week
brass knobs
sounds like an expletive ! Which it could be because today is not our last day …that was optimistic , but we are not despondent it is still the last week …I will be outstaying my welcome with you all for a few more days.
Jenny’s Dad , Reggie , has cleaned up the Brass doorknobs for us , they look very good…..
Thank you Reggie ……
More doors are going on …..
and the Lounge Fireplace has taken up my day ….
Bugger just noticed I missed a bit…that’s usually Jenny’s job to tell me.
So the ending might yet take us by surprise …we honestly don’t know where it is but there has to come a point when we declare no more ….that’s enough……it’s ready !
Shoes off please !
When our Grandson visited back in July we told him to keep his shoes on because the floors were dirtier than he could ever make them …well not today !
John ‘always the last in’ Pearce is our Carpetman and he has done a great job for us … .Welcome to Team Kenwyn John
Looks like I got an action shot of John in action…..
Even better Jenny and I had to stay out of the way while he worked upstairs, so we both had a taste of normal life and went for drinks at a pub for lunchbreak ! After that I discovered normal clothes again finding that none of my jeans fit me any more and my belt doesn’t go tight enough to hold them up. Forget all those expensive diet programs , just do some exercise or physical work !
The carpets bring another massive change to the house …no …to our second home ..(for a while). A lot of camerawork to do now ….a full video coming soon . Here’s a sneak preview pic….or two
silent stairs !
and Jenny is working on the doors …
John and Jenny are still there at 6.15 pm , I have been sent home to put the chicken in the oven …Thanks John ….see you on the next house !
So a half day today for me at long last …you know I like my time off ….but although it’s probably the last day tomorrow it will be a long one….
we need a holiday !!
Because we are knackered ! Plum tuckered in American ……
Oh my word what a day …..not the words I used …..My day started with lugging one hundred bricks into the car and unloading them at our house . It took four trips …they all sit on our front garden now waiting to be stolen we hope …I’m sure if I put up a sign saying ‘Help Yourself’ none would be taken. With them all gone Beijing Bob’s Chinese wall is fully exposed and ready to paint.
The chap next door told me that Gunner Frank , the previous owner, had painted this on the wall . We can only wonder what he was trying to say ….I’m sure it’s not a curse or an advert for a take away restaurant. Now we will never know ……
Jenny is working on the fireplaces upstairs …
She was a little spooked by spider signs but this time she conquered her fears ….interesting….maybe the start of a cure ? No definitely not…..
A few more finishing touches out front …can you spot them ?
The pyramid on the brick wall now shines like a beacon and the hand rail has been painted……
And then back indoors to continue the Lounge ….and it seems time for me to knock a whole tin of primer off the ladder for it to splash like single cream all over the corner wall and the floor ! I am getting tired …..both of us are …I think ‘near the end’ syndrome is kicking in .
I have been reading the blog from the start and it’s noticeable that I had a bad attitude to work ….a theme running through that I did not want to be doing this ….almost five months later all that has changed. I still don’t get up at dawn but I arrive ready to work and if I say so myself I work hard. The other change is that I am now getting a huge sense of satisfaction from the work, my evenings spent smiling as I think back on the achievement for the day . I am ready to do this again on another house …..
Tomorrow is the beginning of a very interesting week. With the carpets laid on Monday all that’s left is to finish is the Lounge for half a day and a few odd jobs . By the end of the week an Estate Agent will have given a verdict on our work ….Jenny is too tired and emotional to take any criticism ! Think I am with her on that one …..
going hard at it in the lounge …..
With the lighting and heating on and Tea and biscuits in the cupboard this old house is becoming a home once again . It’s a new experience to be working when its dark outside ….
Jenny and I have set ourselves the target of finishing the Lounge by Monday so that Mr Carpetman can complete his work in a day …..and to achieve this target we are working harder than European Strike Organizers…and they are working very hard lately.
Must clean that lens ! The house is now completely ready for Carpeting ….tomorrow we will paint the picture rails and the fireplace ….
I am very behind schedule with the transfer of all those bricks to our garden ….speed that up and then my last paint job left to do …Beijing Bob’s Chinese wall ….
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