The weekend

Saturday

I went down to the place I used to live on Saturday to sort out my -now thankfully empty - let property. The tennants of many years stopped paying, and it was a long proceedure to get them to finally move out!

I met up with a rather fast and rather too casual decorator who looked around and said £1,500 plus vat and plus paint to do the whole house - way too much Im sure.. saw me and thought "ha female with no idea, lets screw her for all shes worth"

The poor house, looks so unloved and scruffy, and I admit part of that is my fault, as Ive not done any work to it for years, but things like torn wallpaper and the horrid smell of smoke were not to do with my neglect!!

I also had a lovely guy visit - hes mainly a bathroom person, but it turns out that his company specialise in fast make overs of scruffy houses (particularly for landlords) We went round the whole house, making a long list of all the little jobs that need doing, and Im looking forward to a quote soon.

My parents, bless them, will help fund all this work, and in return the rent will be theirs until its all paid off :-)

Before I left, I took Douglas back into the hospital for one more IV treatment, and another plasma exchange. Sadly the plasma machine has broken, and will not be fixed until Monday at the earliest.

It didnt take me too long to drive back up the motorway, so I had time to have a rest and have tea before going back to pick D up.

Sunday

D is feeling a bit fragile, but as I type he is enjoying lunch of steak pie and broccoli spears :)

The Week Ahead.

Im going up to Glasgow with Shelly on Wednesday morning (Douglas insists) and will be back on Sunday or Monday. I will try and find an internet cafe to update this and read email etc.. but Douglas will be home so if any of you want to call or phone him, please do :)