More of the same

With this outstanding weather it seems quite difficult to lock myself away in the house renovating today, so I've given myself a Sunday of leisure, the house can wait!  Imogen, Millie and I (we left Asha with Nan), headed down to The Heads to meet a few friends for breakfast.  Whilst there, I also wanted to remind Imogen that the renovation was progressing and we should have a home again in the not to distant future (Christmas is still the deadline) .

As we sat enjoying breakfast, the renovation came up in conversation as it always does and as I've found now days, this seems to be a natural segue to Grand Designs and the adventures of Kevin McCloud and his would-be builders and renovators.  "Who's project managing?" always seems to be the first question, closely followed by, "I don't know how those guys on Grand Designs manage to still work whilst concentrating on everything else that a major build involves, let alone keeping the budget in check.  They are always 30% over their initial cost estimations".  A nervous smile to Imogen, "I think we'll be OK", the look on her face tells me that she's not as sure as I am.

After breakfast we took our friends over to the house and gave them the grand tour of the reno and the reactions always let me know how I' progressing.  The first reaction today "Gee, you really did gut the place" (Translation : Shit you have lots of work left to do).  It'll be fantastic when it's all finished, can't wait to see when it's all done" (Translation : Get me out of here before the roof comes down on my head).

It seems from the above reactions I have lots left to do.  Better stop blogging about it and get my hands dirty.