What's on your agenda for today?

On the way home after a very nice birthday trip. Taking the train which isn't free instead of the free bus which takes twice as long.
Watched The Theory of Everything this morning which was excellent and very easy to see why Redmayne got the oscar. Saw Selma yesterday.
 
Sorry to hear you've got a funeral to attend Jackie, sad day for you ..hope everything goes as smoothly as you hope it will.


Hope you've had a lovely trip Annie.

It's been a glorious day here today very sunny. I spent the afternoon taking pictures by the riverside..then popped into the surgery for my meds..and then off to the retail park for some groceries and from the TU range at Sainsbo' , I bought a peach tunic style blouse, and a sleeveless cream ankle length cable cardigan..got both for £40..bargain...

Got home opened up all the windows and doors to let the sun in and unloaded the shopping..took a fruit scone that I'd got from M&S out of the bag and put it on the counter to have with a cuppa tea once I'd gone upstairs to get changed.


Came back downstairs and next doors huge black cat was on the counter eating the scone...ewwww.... I chased it out..I'm highly allergic to cats...threw the scone away and had to wash down the counter tops with bleach.

Oh well...hope it enjoyed what it managed to snaffle LOL
 

I know Gerogia...we don't really have many bugs here like you all have in the USA...only in the summer are there flies and bees and wasps and a few moths at night really...but we don't get mossies and crickets and lizards and things as we also get in Spain where I do have a screen door , ...but now I'm seriously thinking of getting one for here now :D
 
It's bright sunshine, slight breeze, 73 degrees F in my home here in Arizona. I have been in and out of the house and patio. Wish you all had this kinda day. PS For Holly we have almost no flying bugs here ever.
 
Well, me too, Jim, it is very cold here and overcast...although we've missed the snow so for.

Thank you Holly, it was my Aunt's funeral, she has been sick a very long time, we'll miss her.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
That's a good reason to have screens on the doors and windows, Holly!
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Very rare to have screens on windows here. I wish we did. We get flies and wasps. They wouldn't keep out the midgies though - the mesh would have to be extremely tight as midgies are tiny beasts with a vicious bite!

No rain, snow, ice, or sun here. Just cloudy and hazy. Dreich. Right now at just before 11am it's 8c/48f.

Since we were gone Thursday and Friday I had to grocery shop today - something I never do on a Saturday. So I beat the crowds and was out the door by 8:15. Husband is laying the floor tiles today, then installing the toilet. We haven't bought the sink or a medicine cabinet yet. I still need to paint the inside of the door.

So sorry about your aunt Jackie.
 
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Annie my O/H red-modelled my whole bathroom about a year ago...took the whole thing out...new tiles, new flooring , new shower unit, new basin and utility cabinet etc. He also tiled the floor and ceiling of the Loo ...and it all looks beautiful , and the beauty is it will probably never need doing again.

Dreich here today as well, but as I did everything yesterday my back is hurting too much to go out anyway, so I'm happy to stay in..:)
 
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Annie my O/H red-modelled my whole bathroom about a year ago...took the whole thing out...new tiles, new flooring , new shower unit, new basin and utility cabinet etc. He also tiled the floor and ceiling of the Loo ...and it all looks beautiful , and the beauty is it will probably never need doing again.

Dreich here today as well, but as I did everything yesterday my back is hurting too much to go out anyway, so I'm happy to stay in..:)
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Our main bathroom was done in 2004 by my hubby - he tiled the walls, tub, floor, but we didn't get a new sink/toilet/tub. He did put in a new shower though. This half bathroom is getting everything new. Last room in the house to be remodeled/redecorated. Although one guest room and the hallway could use new carpet.
 
We had new carpet and walls all painted in the livingroom 2 years ago.. new white mantlepiece, new glass panelled door etc...but I'm never satisfied with the livingroom and I'll want it done again soon with newer patio doors ... bedrooms were all done within the last 3 years...and like you did yourself hubs remodelled all the old doors throughout the house( 9 doors in all) and modernised them all with beading and framing... they would have cost a fortune to buy new

We had a new kitchen 8 years ago, and new granite tile floor but I wish I'd chosen a different colour worktop so I'm hoping to get that changed

The new stair carpet was laid just last year..

New heavy duty white UPVC front door in 5 years ago as well as a new back door.. so the only thing that's waiting to be done is my dressing room. he fitted it all out with shelving and clothes rails a few years ago..but it's not been painted for about 20 years...so he's going to be doing that this week coming because finally he has some time off work...so yeah I'm happy with that. :D
 
hollydolly said:
We had new carpet and walls all painted in the livingroom 2 years ago.. new white mantlepiece, new glass panelled door etc...but I'm never satisfied with the livingroom and I'll want it done again soon with newer patio doors ... bedrooms were all done within the last 3 years...and like you did yourself hubs remodelled all the old doors throughout the house( 9 doors in all) and modernised them all with beading and framing... they would have cost a fortune to buy new

We had a new kitchen 8 years ago, and new granite tile floor but I wish I'd chosen a different colour worktop so I'm hoping to get that changed

The new stair carpet was laid just last year..

New heavy duty white UPVC front door in 5 years ago as well as a new back door.. so the only thing that's waiting to be done is my dressing room. he fitted it all out with shelving and clothes rails a few years ago..but it's not been painted for about 20 years...so he's going to be doing that this week coming because finally he has some time off work...so yeah I'm happy with that. :D
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You've been busy as well. I guess you are planning on staying in that house a long time? Hubby did all our work except of course putting in a patio door and putting in 19 windows. We don't want to replace our interior doors as they are the originals although I think at one time the upper panels had glass in them. So they get painted glossy white. We do need a new front and back door. Both still use skeleton keys, although our interior front door has deadbolt.

This was a 'holiday/future retirement house' when my husband and ex bought it in 1994. They also had a house in London. This is where they came during school holidays. So not a lot of work was done on it during holidays. It took me ten years to get a new kitchen and living room! Bedrooms have all been done except that one still needs new carpet. Bathrooms. We could use a new garage or at least a new roof.
 
I'm not gonna remodel anything. Nope. This place was built to suit me six years ago, and even if I get to a point where it doesn't suit me anymore, it's gonna stay just as it is. So there. You two just go ahead and deal with the mess (and the expense):)

Cloudy here but not looking like we'll get rain. That's a plus in my book. And it's the last day of the worst month of the year. Feb-u-deary is NOT my favorite month! I'm ready to March into spring. Two weeks ago there were already buds on the daffodils, but with the cold weather, they sort to went into hibernation. Guess we'll see their happy little yellow faces turned up toward the sun this coming week. I can handle that!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I'm not gonna remodel anything. Nope. This place was built to suit me six years ago, and even if I get to a point where it doesn't suit me anymore, it's gonna stay just as it is. So there. You two just go ahead and deal with the mess (and the expense):)

Cloudy here but not looking like we'll get rain. That's a plus in my book. And it's the last day of the worst month of the year. Feb-u-deary is NOT my favorite month! I'm ready to March into spring. Two weeks ago there were already buds on the daffodils, but with the cold weather, they sort to went into hibernation. Guess we'll see their happy little yellow faces turned up toward the sun this coming week. I can handle that!
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Our house was built in 1927. I can't imagine what it looked like then. Fireplaces in every room for heat, living room was divided in half so that wall was removed at some point. Anyway, our mess is nearly done and all the big expense stuff has already been done. :) I personally prefer an older house even though it is more work to keep up. There are lots of big old Victorian houses on our road - don't think I'd want the expense of those, especially the heating.

We've got a few daffodils now, but they look a bit chilly!
 
Funny...I'm reminded of the time we remodeled the kitchen in our Craftsman home in Michigan. Nothing had been done to it since the day the house was built in 1922. It only took three weeks, and we were really getting tired of eating out. When it was all done, we were thrilled with the finished product but ate out for two more days. Why? Because I didn't want to scratch up the beautiful new stainless steel sink! LOL

Fortunately, bathroom fixtures aren't stainless steel so I had no such qualms about bathing in the newly-remodeled bathrooms!
 
My house is 60 years old...I've owned it for 35 years...for the first few years apart from painting every room every four years nothing much was done to it, I was a single parent and didn't have the funds to remodel . The work has all been done since daughter left home and bought her own first house and then I remarried and 2 wages were coming in..and so everything started to happen then.. thank God.

My house in Spain OTOH, is relatively new at 20 years old...we've done very little to that except put in a new kitchen and new roof tiles..
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Funny...I'm reminded of the time we remodeled the kitchen in our Craftsman home in Michigan. Nothing had been done to it since the day the house was built in 1922. It only took three weeks, and we were really getting tired of eating out. When it was all done, we were thrilled with the finished product but ate out for two more days. Why? Because I didn't want to scratch up the beautiful new stainless steel sink! LOL

Fortunately, bathroom fixtures aren't stainless steel so I had no such qualms about bathing in the newly-remodeled bathrooms!
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My hubby gutted and did our kitchen and it took him 5 weeks. The only thing he wasn't allowed to do for insurance reasons was hook up the gas to the cooker. We'd had electric before and we switched. We got white cupboards with glass doors on them and I'm still very fanatical after 5 years keeping them clean.

My brother and his family have a house (in Michigan) that was built in 1919. They had a brand new kitchen put in and couldn't use it for months!
 
The Scottish government is really good at promoting energy efficiency. Anyone could get a zero percent loan to have energy efficient heating put in their homes as well as being given a grant. So we took advantage of it. Replaces our extremely expensive LPG gas heat for an air source heat pump. We're paying about half what we had been paying PLUS the government started paying us after we'd had the system a year. £100 a month! Our house is so much warmer now.

So a new heating system is another thing we had done.
 
Morning ladies, Georgia, my daffodils were in full bloom and fruit trees had blooms on them before last week....we're looking at a cloudy dreary day too.

Just recently did a major remodel on my house that consisted of removing old wall paper, plastering and painting and putting down laminated floors....and that will be my final redo on this house, that I've lived in for 40 years.

Annie, I also changed out a 25 year old heat pump, my electric bill went down $100 per month, no government incentive here though....I have seen that in the past, but not recently.
 
Jackie22 said:
Morning ladies, Georgia, my daffodils were in full bloom and fruit trees had blooms on them before last week....we're looking at a cloudy dreary day too.

Just recently did a major remodel on my house that consisted of removing old wall paper, plastering and painting and putting down laminated floors....and that will be my final redo on this house, that I've lived in for 40 years.

Annie, I also changed out a 25 year old heat pump, my electric bill went down $100 per month, no government incentive here though....I have seen that in the past, but not recently.
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We were paying £250/month for our LPG gas and that was just for the heat, not electric. Now we have a warmer house, electric is £150 a month, we get £100 back from the government, but then pay £100 on the loan for the system which was £10K.
 
I pay roughly $200 per month for electric.....everything in my house is electric....now, water bill can be as high as $200 in month in the summer months,
more than that when I forget to turn the water hose off in the yard...:eek-new:
 
Jackie22 said:
I pay roughly $200 per month for electric.....everything in my house is electric....now, water bill can be as high as $200 in month in the summer months,
more than that when I forget to turn the water hose off in the yard...:eek-new:
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We can't get natural gas here, only in the town. So the only thing now that is gas is the hob on the cooker - the over is electric. Dryer is electric. Never, ever would need AC in this house and it's not unheard of to have it on in summer sometimes! We don't get a water bill, it's included in our council tax.

My sister - in Michigan - is always complaining about how high her water bill is, especially in summer as she has an acre.
 

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