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.)
Does "gentle, loving pressure" involve shoving Dave's arm up his back and growling in his earhole, "Spend the ****ing voucher Dave!"? As for the old sofa, do you possess an axe?
ReplyDeleteMy father and I once sawed a 9-foot sofa in smaller pieces to fit it in the elevator. (Movers had carried it up 16 flights of stairs.) I hope you don’t have to do that. That bench is an eyesore and a hazard, but it’s fairly well swept.
ReplyDeleteMost likely, the drain holes are plugged up which causes it to freeze instead of being able to drain away. Another thing I have seen is that the coils in the back of the fridge can get coated in dirt which doesn't allow the freezing/cooling to be as efficient and sometimes giving them a bath will help prevent things from freezing up.
ReplyDeleteSofa. If I have said it before forgive me to be on repeat. A large sofa's ends can usually be taken off making it much easier to manoeuvre it out and about. Trust me: I am not your mother but have large sofa.
ReplyDeleteAs to defrosting the freezer: I am frozen in shock, Steve. Defrosting every few years? That's insane. You either do it every two/three months or invest in a new fangled American one (SMEG) which doesn't need to be defrosted because it does so on its own volition.
Gift vouchers: Just ask what someone would like. Get it. Wrap it - maybe in one of your banana tree's leaves or whichever plant is currently having its day, hand over.
You can tell, can't you: I like to go the way of least resistance; no loose ends left dangling.
Hope your new sofa and rug will live up to expectation. Enjoy,
U