A stress free free day!

We had a suspicion that it was going to be difficult and we weren't disappointed.

The engineers were due to fit the AGA today but the electrician hadn't finished his preparation. The electrician assured us that he would arrive first thing. The engineer had planned to take two days over the installation. He turned up to announce that he would complete in one day as his daughter had chicken pox (?). The electrician didn't turn up. In order to achieve Building Regulations we have to pressure test the house. There are holes in the walls behind the AGA that couldn't be sealed until the electrics were completed but would be inaccessible once the AGA was installed. So without the electrician we couldn't seal the house and we couldn't install the AGA but we had to install the AGA.

The camping gas cooker has arrived

The electrician finally turned up at 11.30 and did the absolute minimum to allow us to to carry out the installation but not connected to economy 7 so we have fired up the AGA on very expensive electricity.

Game of thrones?

Fortunately the solar panels are doing a great job in this lovely sunshine which will help compensate.

The wood floor.

We ordered the wood flooring for the morning room last week and, on Monday, were told it had been delivered. It hadn't. After many phone calls, in which we were told it would arrive tomorrow, we discovered it had been delivered to Bristol. It's very difficult to spot the difference between Bristol and Nether Wasdale. We had booked the joiner to start next week after acclimatisation (the wood, not the joiner) so we thought that we would have to cancel. The wood arrived late this afternoon.

As the electrician is not coming back until next week we now have a quiet day tomorrow only expecting arrival of the single beds that will be going on the carpet that was due on Wednesday but didn't arrive.


At last we have managed to unpack some of the boxes to reveal a number of very welcome presents.







Still we had a lovely sunset.