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18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 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 the same hassle over the fridge freezer too when they told the kitchen company that they could deliver direct before advising that the item was now obsolete so wouldn’t be delivered after all. This caused a mad rush round during the week before Christmas, trying to locate an alternative and get it delivered before the kitchen was due to be installed.
Anyway lets get back to the present… After some searching around, the kitchen company managed to work a little bit of magic and pull a rabbit out of the hat!! They located the model I wanted in the colour I wanted and even had it physically inspected to make sure there was no mistake.
It was delivered and fitted today as were a few other things that needed finishing off. I am very pleased with the finished kitchen and the cooker produced an excellent evening meal 
Thank you to everyone at QA Kitchens 
22 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2012
From the Attingham Park guide book:
One of the garden’s treasures is the bee house, one of only two known Regency bee houses in the country. It was originally sited in the orchard to encourage pollination of the fruit trees, but was relocated to the lawn south of the Walled Garden. No one is certain who designed it but it could have been John Nash or Humphrey Repton when they were working for Thomas, 2nd Lord Berwick, in the early 1800s. It still houses bees in traditional straw skeps today, and the bees are looked after by the Shropshire Bee-keepers’ Association.
4 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 fitters were due to arrive and install the cooker and finish the last few bits and pieces (such as putting the wall sockets back in place) an email arrived (not a phone call?) to say there had been a problem with the cooker which was supposed to have been delivered to the kitchen suppliers by Hotpoint. No cooker!
Hopefully the kitchen suppliers will come up with a suitable alternative tomorrow…
I was so looking forward to some home cooked food tonight!!
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2012
To believe things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
22 Comments CherryPie on Jan 15th 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 if they are trying to tell me something
There is still a bit of tiling and grouting left to do and the cooker needs to be installed, which should hopefully arrive tomorrow.
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 15th 2012
