We have had a planned up…….and an unplanned down!
The ‘up’ was a raising of the curtain hem (oh, it seems so long since we were at the theatre with a real curtain raise). Our living room curtains were far too long but it was one of those jobs that needed doing, but really wasn’t urgent. However, with the urgent jobs done, the cotton arrived, so snip snip…..
They are big curtains and not a lot of spare space to measure and cut them, but in the end it’s a good job we didn’t go by tape measure. You see, the pole is attached to the top of the beam that runs right across the back of house, it’s painted, but you might remember me sanding it way back. However that beam isn’t straight, so the curtain height isn’t either. It’s higher at one end than the other, a fair bit actually. When you look at it, you don’t really see it, but when you measure, you do! So pinning the curtains up while hanging to aim for the same length from the floor was the best way to go. Great unless your back hurts, when in hindsight it probably wasn’t the best way to go!
We re-pinned, cut and stitched and they look so much better! Another job done.
They are also blackout curtains made of a strange synthetic, very easily meltable fabric, so pressing is not and option; even with a damp T Towel, it was touch and go! However, once our steamer arrives back from storage, they will look better.
The ‘down’ was a little less planned (totally unplanned!) and more…. Dramatic. Ian had popped to the local shop for urgent supplies; I was making tea. Pealing the veg, and making use of the waste disposal unit. I absolutely love it. Any food waste goes down it; it is brilliant. No rotting food waiting for the recycling collection, smelling awful as we wait, nope, straight down it goes, ground up and away. Perfect.
Until…. I have just finished grinding, switch it off and am flushing it through with plenty of cold water and there’s a strange bump and a huge hole appears in the sink. There is a gaping hole where the little plastic guard used to be! I’m in total shock, what’s happened? I quickly switch the water off and peer down, but it’s a black hole, nothing to see. My first thought is the guard has fallen into the grinder, and then I see the floor – soaked, water everywhere! AHH. Open the cupboard door and clearly there is something wrong! Now, Ian in his quest to keep everything tidy has built a shield around the under sink paraphernalia, so I can’t see what’s wrong. Out comes the torch on my phone, I peer down the hole again, and instead of grinder I see cupboard, white cupboard and water.
To get the shield out you need a screwdriver. As you know these are generally all over the kitchen worktops, but we have tidied up, so no screwdriver in sight! Just as I go in search of one, Ian arrives home and for the first time ever experienced the ‘voice’ every nurse will recognise. A calm, but firm and fairly loud. “Ian, I need help now.” For nurses, it is usually to summon help as someone has been found very unwell, but not in cardiac arrest. Fallen, sick, or something else, where you don’t want to alert all the other patients, but all nurses will recognise the urgency. Clearly it works with husbands too! He was in like a shot. By this point I’d worked out the waste disposal had come off, and for the first time ever Ian knew exactly where the screwdriver was (he’s always looking for things and can’t find them despite them being where he is looking), a quick whizz of the screws and the cupboard is revealed. One Insinkerator, dangling, held up by another pipe, so it hadn’t thumped to the bottom and broken anything, but dangling unattached to the sink! Whoops. Fortunately nothing was broken and Ian swiftly reattached it. This time giving the clips a good bash with a hammer to tighten them, and a cable tie or two for good measure. That won’t be coming down again!
You won’t be surprised to hear there are very few photos of the incident itself. But once it was back in situ, I was calm enough to remember to take a shot of it where it should be.
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