G's parents arrived on Wednesday and after a couple of days of resting and getting over the jet lag, G has enrolled his Dad into helping with some major clearing out of this place.... to enable us to finish off those rooms downstairs and decorate a nursery.
First job was yesterday - clearing out the garage. Amazingly (considering it was completely full of shite from wall to ceiling and you couldn't even get in there) they got it done. It is now very tidy indeed!
Today they went to the tip and got rid of a truck load of shite that we'd thrown out from the garage, and then we got stuck in downstairs. First off they ripped out everything from the storage room and the cupboard under the stairs and half of it has again ended up in the back of the truck to go to the tip. Then they started on the hot tub room in which is a whole bunch of boxes that can be taken up and put in the garage as they're not immediately needed. I filled 3 large boxes full of books to go to the 2nd hand store, and 3 more which can go into the garage along with half the shelves, the other half to go into the emptied hot tub room... leaving the library empty so that we can paint, decorate, and use as a guest room!
All in all, this is a massive amount of lugging heavy shite around and it's a good job his dad is here to help!
Posted by katie at April 1, 2007 06:30 PMDads' are useful for that... it's the only time I ever make a serious dent in clearing the crap out here, when my dad comes over with the trailer :)
Posted by: Aka at April 2, 2007 04:43 AMI hope you wouldn't do this to a friend who came to visit! I'm not booking a trip to come out and see you until you promise you won't put me to work :-)
Posted by: Steve at April 2, 2007 10:26 AMFunnily enough - when my parents come to stay its the other way around. They trash this house. Fill it up with food that will never get eaten, fabric that will never be used and more tools than a person could ever want or need. Now i am not complaning, having THREE chop saws and FOUR circular saws and TWO jigsaws is pretty much the norm for one family of four.... isnt it?
Oh, and the stand alone table saw should be arriving with the next visit. Sigh.
Posted by: boo at April 2, 2007 11:11 AM