Stalled Delivery

September 24, 2009 9:26 PM

Up very early this morning to try and finish what I started yesterday (ie. the cleaning) but on checking my email it seems I shouldn't have worried since our visitor is no longer arriving, well not for another 3 weeks or so. So that kind of left me at a loose end for today as I'd planned lots of things that I no longer needed to do.

Instead of wasting the day though I get on and do some other jobs that I needed to get done, including a website design for our neighbour who has a sandwich shop in our town and I'd offered to do it for her. That actually takes a lot longer than I imagined and realised working with a very strong local brand quite challenging, but I get half way close to what I think is acceptable and I'll review it again tomorrow, always helps to put fresh eyes onto something.

I also pop out to the local salvage yard to try and find a cabinet that I can use to go between the two single beds in our second guest bedroom and find a nice little piece of furniture that will suffice. It was only 40 quid but I know it will probably last longer than anything I can buy from Argos, for example.

When I get home I get a visit from the neighbour who has asked for my help in applying for her husband to various motorsport jobs which I'm only too happy to help out on, but it will have to wait until tomorrow when I have a bit more free time.

After that I pop out with Rupert and the neighbour's dog (since Rupert will now be staying with them since our visitors won't be here on time). I've been socialising them together for weeks now so that we both benefit if we need someone to look after either dog, so fortunately this has acted as a bit of a plan B in terms of where we can put Rupert while we are away.

Finally when I get home we have dinner and I chat to my visitor who is not quite with us, yet. Man, I thought I had a lot of thinking to do at times, but he and his family have got the mount Everest of life altering decisions to make over the coming months. Needless to say, rather them than me, but all I can do is offer my opinion if it's asked for.

Been a long day, so I'm glad to turn in after a lovely hot bath.