A Matter Of Tog

Ah, the weekend - a time for gentle relaxation and usually an opportunity to spend some money on something, or so you'd think....

First of all, Phil kindly drills a big old hole in the outside wall so that I can resurrect the washing line by inserting a very heavy duty special medieval type eye bold which expands when you screw it in so we can attach one end of the line to it , and with that done we decided that we needed to extend the irrigation system in the garden so that the plants I'm planning on putting in pots can get some water when they need it, and we can rearrange it slightly better so pipes aren't running over the path and therefore slightly less obvious. So, with a rough idea of what we want to do we head off to homebase but fail miserably to buy any of the bits we need because they simply don't have anything there.

So we head off home and when we get back the house is like an oven. I'd noticed that over the past couple of nights I'd been flinging the duvet off me in the middle of the night because it was so hot, and when we take a gander at the internal thermometer that we have we realise that inside the house is about 22 degrees, and upstairs is even warmer. I can put this down to 2 things, a) we've had a spell of warm weather and b) the double glazing is doing as it should, which is great, except it's uncomfortable at night.

With that in mind we have a look around on the internet to see if we can get a combination duvet, ie. a duvet that is in fact 2 duvets in one that are joined together - one is around 9 togs, and the other is around 4, ideal for the the summer. The duvet we have on the bed at the moment is probably around 13.5. It looks like Debenhams might have a good match so we head off to Banbury to see if we can get said new duvet. Well, they had every duvet except the one we wanted, so they lost out on about 150 smackers.

It wasn't an entirely wasted trip though since Banbury also have an exceptionally large homebase which makes our local one look like a wendy house so we head over there to see if they might have the extra irrigation stuff that we need, and BINGO! they do, so we manage to get all the bits that we want in one go.

Back home and Phil and I both get busy rearranging the irrigation and the like and after doing that it's not long before we're out of the door again, this time heading off to the Indian restaurant where I'm being treated to a birthday dinner a day early - very nice too it was :)

Posted by Abi on the May 13, 2006 9:21 PM