I took an extra day's holiday today as we got back later than planned yesterday. Still got up early enough to go to work, earlier than usual actually, so got some good jobs done. First the lawn, I mowed the lawn for the first time ever. I had arranged with the neighbours to borrow their mower while they were away and take care of both of the front gardens, but in the end their holiday was shorter than ours so I pictured them seething that a) their mower was locked in my garage and b) the lawn was growing like crazy because of all the bad weather. So, I was out doing that before 9am, how manly.
Then also, good things achieved, I arranged quotes from a couple of builders to do a garage conversion, and contacted the council about change of use. This is quite a frightening thing actually, will be the biggest expense (other than buying the house) EVER! We've already had one builder round who has done this job for one of the neighbours. We need the space with a new baby on the way, so it's either convert the garage or buy a camper van and park it on the drive. We have a room for the new baby, but then we'd have no room for visitors, and who would not want to visit to see a new baby? Plus we need all the help that visiting grandparents can offer. Clare is not keen on the camper van idea, so we definitely have to do the garage conversion. And now it's underway.
Big job I really wanted to get done today was sorting all of the holiday photos and video. I have over three hundred, but DON'T PANIC I won't foist them all on you, lots of duplicates in there and just rubbish shots I took to remind myself of things. I've done maybe a quarter of them so far, I hope to have holiday pictures to share in the next couple of days...
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