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Well this weekend has gone pretty well by all accounts.
Friday we dsidn’t do very much at all. Saturday, we got up at about 10am and then got working on Madison’s bedroom (Sky also called to arrange the installation (attempt 3) for between 11am – 1pm) so off I went with my paint roller and brush and got busy.
Mum and Dave poppoed in for a drink on their way to Reading, while Sky arrived and guess what? They couldn’t install it……anyway, I’ll get to that in a minute.
Mum and Dave left, so we got busy again with some more decorating, then not too much later, Dave, Angie and Sophie arrived for dinner. Spagetti Bolognase for about 10 people was served, and a very tasty one in my books….success part 1.
Dad and Angie left at about 7.30 so me and Nicky decided to go to Ikea to buy the flooring for Madisons bedroom as they where open until 11pm.
Back to Sky: Seems the bloke in the week lied about the flat roof installation….I would never have guessed, and it seems the two that turned up on Saturday weren’t too keen on climbing our 3 story plaza resort to install it. After a long debate we agreed they would leave me a roll of cable and some cable clips, and I would run the internal cabling and they would come back in the week to fit the boxes and the dish…….success part 2.
Sunday arrives and we continue working on the monsters bedroom….paint applied, so I move on to the cabling, by which time Mum and Dave have been here for about an hour, so I need to get moving really.
Four or five floorboards, about 100m of satelitte cable and some sweat later, we have a very tidy and nice looking Sky cable install….much better than they would have done being that it took me about 2 1/2 hours to lay the cabling alone….success part 3.
Dinner this evening was the biggest success……a new dish in the scheme of things for me. I decided to do steak with a peppercorn sauce and those fancy french potato’s which I can’t spell…..dolphin-something. You could say I was concerned about cooking this as the least, but in the end, I think my best dish to date, and confirmed by all present…..success part 4.
Now, I leave for bed as after a few glasses of wine I’m feeling a little sleepy Zzz Zzz xxx
