The Kitchen

The kitchen is moving on now that my toe is better - or getting better would be better - ( I love this language it's such a mess).

The kitchen, I ramble and detour with my thoughts it must be the drugs - only joking, I have installed all the wall cabinets, worktops, oven, microwave and sink and today the cooker hood arrived so I'll get that fixed soon. The floor tiling is in progress and we bought the splashback tiles during the week. Things are looking good and I'm getting back on track to finishing sometime in October. I am really pleased with how much has been achieved by paying cash for everything. It really does give a tremendous sense of pride in your work when you can stand back and say I don't owe anyone for this. My wife and I have have done all this ourselves.

Chuffed to the gutties as they say.

Ramble over see you soon bye.

Another thought

Going overboard tonight with thinking - but that's what happens when your bored sensless. I was thinking that almost no one knows where my nickname Dodderer comes from.

I was about 28 years old and a building site supervisor and one of my apprentices who I was helping to understand an easier way of doing a particular task - don't ask me what it was I am far too old to remember - anyway after repeatedly showing him what he was doing wrong he finally grasped how it was done. Then turned round and said thanks for that- Yeah like that ever happened - but he did turn to me and said ' you know something your doddering old C*#t. He was about 17 I was 28 and he called me old I couldn't believe it I thought I was still quite young anyway I did like the Doddering reference so I kept it just changed it slightly to Dodderer. The swear word by the meant nothing, swearing in all its forms were just part of the normal way of talking in the trade and very rarely were the words actually used in a hurtfull way.
That's how I became Dodderer

Interesting aint it - probably not dear Phantom reader.

A Thought

At the top of my blog there various things and options available from a blog search panel to a next blog button. Every time I press the next blog I get Spanish language blogs which i don't understand though from the pictures I would like to read - How do I get english language blogs to read. might be too difficult for an old dodderer like me to understand.

Anyway Rosy have a wonderfull adventure in India I wish you all the best and a really happy time there. Hope to see you when you get back.

In the Kitchen

I should point out - just in case any of the phantoms who read my posts wonder- that I am not really a lazy so an so the reason that this renovation to my kitchen is taking so long is because I refuse to borrow money to do it. This of course means that I can only spend any spare cash out of my very meagre wages on the programme, this is much preferable to paying for a loan which by the time the loan is paid the kitchen looks like it needs replacing. In another couple of months I will have a brand new fully paid for kitchen and dining room.

May in the Kitchen

May seen the start of the new units going in.

The new doors and worktops and sink went during this month too, which is just as well because at the beginning of June I broke my left big toe ( see below) so not much happened during June or July.

Kitchen continued

Removal of old units went on while new electrics were installed that brought us to the end of May.

Kitchen remodel

I started in April by ripping out the pine ceiling and putting up a new plasterboard one. Then began the removal of the old kitchen units.

The big toe

My foot and toe are getting very swollen if I stand for too long its also very painful. There are two marks on my foot where the damn staging fell on it which co-responds to the marks on my shoe making me wonder if I maybe broke a bone further up my foot, I'll give it another few days and if it's still the same I'll see the doctor.

Broken toe

My toe is getting better I had the cast taken off on thursday so I can now wash my feet again my foot looked horrible when the cast came off. Toe is still a bit sore I've to take it easy with it for the next 4 weeks or so. Another thing I can do is drive, I missed that.

School Holidays

Edinburgh schools are on holiday from today, which means that I get a whole lot more peace and quiet at my front door. It really is quiet here anyway but the holiday times mean that there is a lot less traffic and people passing my house. I was due to start my own holidays from monday but that's now postponed until my foot is better, but what the heck I'm off anyway just can't drive.

This is drivel but it keeps me amused. I'm installing a new kitchen in my house and I think I'll record on here how it's progressing so look forward to seeing the before, during and after photos.

That'll drive my phantom reader to near suicide or at least to deeper contemplation of their navel.

How do you like the two new gadgets Astronomy picture of the day and Random Webcams from around the World

Broken toe again

I was thinking the other day about this bandage which is wrapped around my foot and big toe. Its a pretty ugly thing but functional in its own way, anyway this is on my foot for four weeks with orders from those who know that I have to keep it dry, this is easier said than done but I try. The thing is can you imagine just how dirty a white bandage is getting after just three weeks with another week to go, I daren't even think about the condition of the foot trapped inside it, just as well I don't suffer from smelly feet LOL. The photo was taken just after I got home from the hospital so everything is still reasonably clean.

I got another couple of books yesterday via my daughter going to the shops - thanks very much Shaz - I'll list them on the side panel if they are any good and here for the moment

Sail by James Patterson

Your heart belongs to me by Dean Koontz

They both should be good reads as I've read these guys before and they are both good spinners of tales and keep you really interested from start to finish.

Latest from a fevered brow

It's been a while - again- only this time I'm not at work, how strange is that?

I am off work while my toe heals. I broke it while setting up staging for the school Prizegiving evening, damn fool stage fell over and landed on my foot. Next day, not being able to get my left shoe on due to swelling and bruising of my left foot, which just happened to be the one the stage fell on, this was a major clue as to why the bruising was there. I went to the local Hospital to have it X-rayed and the doctor discovered I had three fractures in two of the bones in my big toe, these bones are known as the meta -thingymajigs, can't spell won't spell. My big toe was given a two inch long plaster cast all to itself and my foot bandaged, that part I don't understand, and then I was given a special sandal the sole of which was all heel and no toe area to stop me bending my toe while walking. So here I am three weeks later having read all the books in the house which were still to be read and bored to tears remembering I had a blog so that's why the above is here.

Have fun and until next time my phantom readers be good.