Bossy boss

10.36 on a Saturday night and guess what's the husband doing?

He's sorting out the plumbing/boiler upstairs.

And has been since last Saturday......

We've had to live without hot water the entire week because the boiler stuff is taking a LOT longer than we anticipated.

The poor thing have probably spent almost 25 hours or more on it by now.

It's taking so long because of inexperience.

When it's all done, he says he will write about it because it is his 'grand design'.

I, on the other hand.. can't really do much except to get out of his way and be bossy every now and again.

Well.. all that and also learning about HTML, CSS, XML and a host of others which are all as good as aliens to me but will have to be learnt if I want to get good grades for the digital document management course..

At least I only need to know what they are capable of doing and how everything sorts of ties in.

All that so that I can go boss developers in the future.. bwahhahahahahaah....

Happy Babby boy

The husband was at Bury yesterday for a training session and they had him do one of the 'tell one false and true fact about yourself' exercise and everyone else is supposed to guess which one is true.

His first 'fact' was : I'm from Singapore, I have been here since 2004 where I did my undergraduate degree.

His second fact was : I'm 24 and I have been married for a year and a bit.

I thought he pulled quite a good bluff and without his wedding ring (he doesn't wear it because it became too loose after he lost weight) it's probably quite hard to tell that he's married.

Apparently though.. they all guessed correctly.

They said that he looked really happy and contented when he revealed that he was married.. so they guessed it to be true.

Hmmm...

= )

It makes me really happy to know that he's.. well.... happy..

And to know that other people can actually see and tell that he's happy to be married is priceless.

It makes everything that's already good so much better.

Gary the snail

Some weekends ago we went to Southside for some fishfood and bones for Bronx and there we found

Gary the snail! He's really rather interesting and very brave.. circling the tank again and again.. ignoring the fat goldfishes and gangster minnows.

And here's mummy's boy looking for a pat on his head for being a good boy while she was at work.

Work work work

We always wondered what would happen when we both found permanent work in the City and have to travel in everyday 9 – 5.30.

Well.....

Now we know.. It is hard.

We have to be up by 6.30am to get things done and take Bronx out for a short walk before packing up and leaving the house by 8.

Also, bed time is now 10 with preparing dinner, washing up and preparing tomorrow’s lunch all packed in that little time we have at home.

Fortunately for us, this is all temporary.

The husband has been working from home a bit the past weeks as we’ve got tradesmen coming to deal with the electrics among other things.

The wall in between the living room and kitchen is now down.

The house is literally a building site..

We hope to be done by the end of next month and next week, I’m going back to school!

Teehee!

Oh.. and we have a new addition to the family, but that's a story for another day.

Big giant bone

We went to Staines this afternoon for some chinese buffet and got this from the petshop


He loves it, it is huge, it is £5.99!!! and it was already half gone by dinner time....

The boys have been getting along very well these days. We usually spend about an hour with the rabbits upstairs before nap time and Bronx comes along following them around like a security guard.

He's slowly learning to let go and calm down when the rabbits are around.



Here's the rabbits feeling rather chilled out and contented.. They do look rather fat don't they?

Hmmmmm......

Michael's big erection

At the moment, we are both busy doing works to our house, mainly redecorating and bringing it up to date.

We started in the garden about a month ago, clearing the garden off the spider (they were LARGE and aplenty!) infested plants, shrubs, trees.... basically.. everything.

The previous owner of this house planted really strange, ugly, crawley, thorny plants and they were all stubborn and a pain to remove.

However.. we managed.

Then.... we decided it was time for the rotting old shed to go and also the fence between us and our neighbour also, as it was quite badly damaged by the crawling plants.

Thankfully, we had help from some friends with the fence and the digging.

Taking down the shed took a few hours, but taking down and putting up the fence took a good 3 - 4 days work!


That's Mike celebrating after successfully putting up the new second fence panel. 2 down, 2 more to go!


That's the mess that was our garden......


Here's the fence completed! Hurray!!

We also dug a 6 inch deep hole for the concrete base of our shed.

It took us 2 days to dig, put in the wooden frame, lay the sub-base, waterproof membrane, mix the concrete and level it out.

I did the concrete mix and leveling while the husband was at work last Thursday. It took me almost 5 hours!!!! and I don't think my arms have forgiven me..

It isn't perfect, but for a first timer and working alone, the husband thinks it's pretty good.


We sanded down the fence next to the concrete yesterday and painted it. We also painted over the concrete. This is how it looks like as of now.


Not bad huh?

The garden is still messy, but compared to a month ago, it is quite acceptable. Once the shed is up and the tools are in, we will have a garden again!

Of course there're still lots to do - the other side of the fence needs sanding and painting, the flower beds need to be built and then we will lay the garden with nice green grass, make a pathway to the door and decorate it with a nice homely bench and a fountain???? (the husband says MAYBE) :P

Hehe.. for the moment we are all dancing happy and busy bees!

Hi Pigeon

At 2 years and 10 months L's favourite question has to be 'What's your name?'

The funny thing is that it actually took him a while of asking before he actually understood at all what it means.

Yesterday in the garden there was a particularly tame pigeon looking for worms and berries.. L went right up to it and said, 'Hi Pigeon. What's your name?'

When he got no reply he pressed on and repeatedly asked for the pigeon's name. It was really really cute!

He did give up eventually and went back to his scooter.

Later when the pigeon got in his way he bent down from his scooter and said very politely to it - Mind Pigeon, mind!

Isn't he just adorable?