Catching up
Apr. 15th, 2014 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angharad_gamThe feast went fairly well. It was pretty hectic, partly because I had a collection of fairly inexperienced helpers, and partly because of menu design. Almost everything in the second course was cooked on site, which meant there was a lot of things happening in the kitchen in the lead up to service of that course. I think I will be careful in the future to spread precooked dishes more evenly through the feast. Having said that, the menu was deliberately designed to have small, nibbly things in the first course, which lend themselves more to precooking. Something to contemplate for next time anyway.
The following week it was Erin's birthday. We all went out to see the Lego movie. I think it was the first time we have all been to the movies together. In the past it has either been Andy and I together or either Andy or I with one or more kids. Erin turned thirteen, so we now officially have a teenager in the house - scary!
Andy caught a cold, and then I caught it too, and this laid me out for most of last weekend. I bought a heap of flower seedlings a few weeks ago and between taking the kids to an Easter fair, making pasta, feast and now illness I haven't managed to plant them out yet. The poor things are still stuck in their little seedling tubs. Also the front garden badly needs weeding, but that hasn't happened for the same reasons. Hopefully I'll have some time coming up though. I am taking a week off after Easter.
First I have to earn it though. Tomorrow I am heading off to Perth for work. I have never been to Perth, but I'm not going to see much of it. I get in about 8pm tomorrow and leave again at 5:30pm on Thursday.
Also our old house is now under contract. We managed to get some new pipes just in time to get the carpets steam cleaned before the first people came through. We actually sold it privately, with a little assistance from Andy's dad who is a retired real estate agent. We put it up on Gumtree and seemed to get quite a lot of attention that way. What surprised us was the number of people who rang up and asked to see the house and then turned out to be real estate agents who just wanted to try and persuade us to let them sell it.
The house was actually only on the market for a couple of weeks. We priced it fairly low because there it still needed a certain amount of work, but we will still get enough to pay off all our mortgages and put a fairly comfortable lining in the bottom of our bank account, so we are pretty happy about that. Now we just need House Buying Man's bank to come through.
The following week it was Erin's birthday. We all went out to see the Lego movie. I think it was the first time we have all been to the movies together. In the past it has either been Andy and I together or either Andy or I with one or more kids. Erin turned thirteen, so we now officially have a teenager in the house - scary!
Andy caught a cold, and then I caught it too, and this laid me out for most of last weekend. I bought a heap of flower seedlings a few weeks ago and between taking the kids to an Easter fair, making pasta, feast and now illness I haven't managed to plant them out yet. The poor things are still stuck in their little seedling tubs. Also the front garden badly needs weeding, but that hasn't happened for the same reasons. Hopefully I'll have some time coming up though. I am taking a week off after Easter.
First I have to earn it though. Tomorrow I am heading off to Perth for work. I have never been to Perth, but I'm not going to see much of it. I get in about 8pm tomorrow and leave again at 5:30pm on Thursday.
Also our old house is now under contract. We managed to get some new pipes just in time to get the carpets steam cleaned before the first people came through. We actually sold it privately, with a little assistance from Andy's dad who is a retired real estate agent. We put it up on Gumtree and seemed to get quite a lot of attention that way. What surprised us was the number of people who rang up and asked to see the house and then turned out to be real estate agents who just wanted to try and persuade us to let them sell it.
The house was actually only on the market for a couple of weeks. We priced it fairly low because there it still needed a certain amount of work, but we will still get enough to pay off all our mortgages and put a fairly comfortable lining in the bottom of our bank account, so we are pretty happy about that. Now we just need House Buying Man's bank to come through.
