To date I’d been living with the fridge and water cooler in the sitting room. To be honest, it’s been rather convenient not having to walk too far to get a cold glass of beer or water. Now I’ll be getting just that little bit more exercise doing so.

Fridge and Water Cooler

The four boxes of suet mix in the foreground don’t reflect a particular love of dumplings. However, they were on sale, reduced to a fraction of the original price – the typically exorbitant price demanded for imported foods.

Elsewhere in the kitchen I have most of my crockery and utensils in cardboard boxes. It will stay like this, and I will continue living a very provisional life, for another month or so, until the kitchen units are installed, and the plumbing and the electricals are done. Shouldn’t be much more than a month or so.

Kitchen With Boxes

Incidentally, the problem with the tap in the middle of the wall was solved by building up the wall so that the tap became hidden behind thick plaster.

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