Due to the snow last November/December lots of things were cancelled. This week we seem to have been catching up. My son went with the cubs to see the local pantomime - Aladdin and had a great time. Both kids had extra dance classes on Saturday, this left us with just over an hour to kill in Livingston. Always dangerous. We decided to go an look at rugs for the hall. To put this in perspective our hall is roughly 3m by 3.5m and the rug that is down was given to us, second hand, 15 years ago. Despite having been turned round it is thread bare in several places, especially the centre. It is difficult to get rugs this size and they all seem to be plastic or specially treated. SO we went to Broxburn to an industrial unit where second hand Persian carpets are imported. There were many beautiful carpets but none to suit until we saw one on the wall, tribal in origin, thirty plus years old and quite angular in it's design, which complements the existing B&Q floor runners beautifully. We came home with it!
This rug, unsurprisingly, is thicker than the old one. Our porch door wouldn't go over it so we had to get the joiner to come and shave a bit off the bottom. The hidden advantage to this is that I can now get the draught excluder to fit under it! I have put a picture and some blurb under REUSE and CARPETS.
The rest of the week was less glamourous, I am still working under the floors removing old copper piping, insulating the heating pipes and then insulating the floor. The first day of the kids holiday we were all at it and got a load of work done. That has however sickened us so we are taking the rest of the holiday off!
While working on the insulation last week I had a visit from Meg Beresford who runs Wiston Lodge - see links. She is a real expert in sustainable living and so it felt like the novice talking to the expert but lovely to go round and look at what we are doing through somebody else's eyes.
On the food growing front I did manage to get the potatoes chitting this week, mainly because the Setterkept running off with them and I had visions of him eating them!
This rug, unsurprisingly, is thicker than the old one. Our porch door wouldn't go over it so we had to get the joiner to come and shave a bit off the bottom. The hidden advantage to this is that I can now get the draught excluder to fit under it! I have put a picture and some blurb under REUSE and CARPETS.
The rest of the week was less glamourous, I am still working under the floors removing old copper piping, insulating the heating pipes and then insulating the floor. The first day of the kids holiday we were all at it and got a load of work done. That has however sickened us so we are taking the rest of the holiday off!
While working on the insulation last week I had a visit from Meg Beresford who runs Wiston Lodge - see links. She is a real expert in sustainable living and so it felt like the novice talking to the expert but lovely to go round and look at what we are doing through somebody else's eyes.
On the food growing front I did manage to get the potatoes chitting this week, mainly because the Setterkept running off with them and I had visions of him eating them!
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