Roar and Snore

We had a wonderful time at the zoo. Thank you so much for my fantastic present.
On arrival at our swanky accomodation, we had lovely drinks and fruit and cheese. After settling in to our tent, we were taken to dinner and then shown around the zoo. The day had been hot but by the time we arrived there was a great cool breeze. Our tent had a view straight to the harbour bridge.



The next morning after breaky we were taken to see some of the animals being fed and even got to do some feeding.
We had a great time - despite the 40 + temperature on the Sunday.

Downstairs

On Friday and Saturday the guys worked to remove the two bathrooms downstairs and strip out the slate in the hallway.

All done!

Tomorrow the work begins to relocate the wall within the bathroom (separating the main bathroom from the ensuite) and the installation of the new windows in the bathrooms.

He also said the tiler would be back early this week to get wall tiles in place in the laundry and to screed the laundry floor ready for tiling.

There seems to have been more mess and dust this time than last - not sure why. Perhaps because the fittings have been in place for longer. Not that it matters much we both sneezed and snuffled through last night.

We have a new front door and much to my great pleasure one key that opens all the doors, screen doors, deadlocks and all! So tidy and uncomplicated. I am however still carrying a huge bunch of keys around as I am uncertain which ones are now surplus to requirements...

One down!

This morning the shower screen was installed in the first bathroom, completing that part of the renovations.



We have moved to the upstairs bedroom and Friday morning the strip out of the two downstairs bathrooms will begin.



We have become relatively adept at living with chaos and mess but I fear there are one or two things we shall never again see...

It is, as the photos show; all white with the exception of the floor tiles which are a slightly patterned brown (sounds quite lovely doesn't it?) tile.

The pantry and laundry are taking shape and some tiles will go in there this week but Ric our builder does not want the new floor tiles to go down until the work downstairs is complete in case they are scuffed during the work downstairs. In consequence we are walking on newly laid tile underlay, a kind of fibrous cement material carefully nailed down. No counting was involved but Ric tells me that he worked out around 3,000 nails had to be driven into the sheets he laid - glad I was at work that day.