Weekend Tasks

The weekend at last, after this crazy week of home repairs and work! Despite the fact that I spent two days this week sitting around waiting for repairmen, I feel like I haven't had enough home time. So I'm looking forward to relaxing.

We do have a few tasks on our agenda. Tomorrow we have to move our gigantic old couch out to the street for the council to carry away on Monday. This is going to be an adventure. Stay tuned.

I'm also thinking about defrosting the freezer, which is once again so icy that the drawers don't easily pull in and out. I don't understand how I managed to go seven years before doing this the first time in 2021, because I had to do it again in 2023 and it needs it again now. We have somehow switched to an every-two-years defrosting cycle! I guess I just waited that first time until it was really, really, really bad.

And finally, I gave Dave a gift certificate to a local cookshop for his birthday back in June and he hasn't used it yet. I'm getting nervous that we'll never use it if we don't do it soon -- it's been hanging on the refrigerator so long it's basically become invisible to us -- so I'm going to apply some gentle, loving pressure to get him to redeem it.

Some graffiti on Finchley Road. "To infinity, and beyond!"

Someone has tidied up the broken bench, removing the rather useless warning cones and sweeping around it. But whoever is responsible still can't bring themselves to remove it entirely.

(Top photo: Colorful balconies on the Barbican estate, last weekend.)