Black & Decker Workmate

Lately I’ve not had much to write on here because, although I’ve been busyish I’ve only been working on a few things. Namedly my new site that will advertise the services I can offer: Translation, Computer Maintenance & Web Design.
For the moment I have on translation job in the pipeline. Which is nice.

Other than that, computer wise we got a new flat screen through Thumpah’s job – gratis. We’re very pleased with it because finally we can “use” our desk. The old CRT monitor took up half of it. It was an old IBM one that my BIL gave us. Not that I’m complaining, because he helped us out of a pickle when our old monitor died.

My friend John Willis, author of the Routemaster book I mentioned previously, has asked me if I could write an article about UK buses in France for the British Bus Preservation Society club magazine. I’ve not started it just yet – as I’m mulling over what I can write about and which photos I can include. It’ll be interesting to write though.

Yesterday I built a Black & Decker workmate, one of those DIY tables used to hold things so you can work on them. In fact ours isn’t Black & Decker and amazingly we actually bought it 5 years ago, from Aldi. Since then it has been sitting in it’s box in the garage – although once unpacked it looked like we’d bought it yesterday!
It took me a good couple of hours to build it because the instructions were a bit naff. In between I helped my MIL carry a couple of things FIL left here 4 years ago when he lived with us for 8 months – part of the emptying of one of our bedrooms. Then went to see FIL who is recovering from a knee replacement operation. He is at home for the weekend from the clinic where he is undergoing constant physio-therapy.

Now that I’ve built the “workmate”, I can use it to hold the wooden batons that I need to cut to size which will hold the wooden slats I need to re-attach onto the wall in the nursery.

On Friday fellow expat, Campbell, who lives 15km from here came over to help me move some furniture. Was mostly moving a double bed from one of our bedrooms into the basement. As part of the work on the nursery we will also move bedrooms. Also moving stuff in the basement.
MIL has offered to buy us a new bed for our 10 years anniversary – but we’ve agreed to pay part of the cost towards it. She only has her pension, and given the price of beds these days we really had to step in and help. Even so, it’ll be good for Thumpah considering that she’ll have to carry the baby and for myself because of my semi-constant bad back. Carrying furniture around doesn’t help, but at least I’m not doing all that by myself.

Campbell stayed for dinner on Friday evening. I had prepared a Tartiflette. We had a nice fish soup with la rouille & croutons for the starter. Thumpah had bought a lovely tarte aux abricots in the boulangerie on the way home. It was all washed down with some Fitou red wine that Isa’s brother had brought back from Les Caves in southern France.

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