Archive for the 'Anecdotes' Category

Today at the office one of my colleagues mentioned a comment they had overheard from someone who was in the building before most people arrive for the work day…

I noticed a reflection in the glass this morning and when I turned round I saw an ‘apparition’ it moved across the room and out through the [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2012

…from the new kitchen.

After a few years absence, it was so nice to taste fresh home made bread

26 Comments CherryPie on Feb 29th 2012

I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where I share my reading journey over the years.

2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2012

I have now returned from from my second journey (in a month) down south.  It is such a long journey (5 hours) that it feels like a trip to the moon.    Making the journey by road is less than ideal; it is mostly motorways, which currently have a lot of roadworks that slow down the [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2012

Wednesday
Yesterday, all stops were pulled out by the kitchen company as they were trying to locate an alternative cooker for our kitchen.  The problem was that we wanted a white cooker and there was a four to six week delay for one in that colour, despite their supplier promising that one was available.  They caused [...]

22 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2012

Monday
It was a day of two halves, the good and the bad. The tiler arrived in good time, finished off the last bit of wall tiling and then did the grouting. The person who will eventually paint the walls turned up in good time to assess the situation.
Then half an hour after the [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2012

Friday
Friday was a hive of activity, with up to four people working in the kitchen at any one time. The floor tiles were grouted, the walls tiled, the kitchen units finished off and the appliances installed. Along the way a wine rack which wasn’t part of the original plan appeared… I wonder [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 15th 2012

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