Bye bye old friend

Well this weekend saw the final curtain for a piece of furniture that has been around in Mum's house for almost 30 years... our trusty sofa bed that has accommodated so many visitors over its many years of reliable service (apart from Sarah, who famously decided one time to fold away the bed and sleep on the floor!). The decision was made that there was no longer room in the house to keep it and it had to go... OK... but where?! I refused to accept Mum's suggestion of taking a sledgehammer to it and chucking it on the tip and instead decided to give it as noble a send of as possible...

.... so I ripped it's guts out

and shoved it down the stairs! (OMG that thing was awkward and took about an hour for me to work out how to get it down the stairs on my own without gouging great chunks out of the wall)

Down in the garage I reassembled, and prepared for storage whilst we decided what to do... I opted for Ebay first, then if no interest... Freecycle was going to be it. Luckily some eager beaver snapped it up within 24 hours of the advert being on so the garage should be one sofa lighter by the end of the week! They agreed to pay the full asking price of £25 whole English pounds too! Amazing!

So now we cleared some space it was time to fill it back up again whilst having a good clean and clear out at the same time! Bye bye stashes of cleaning products and plastic bags - Hello nice new roomier room! Watch this space for final make over pics... or perhaps we will just keep you in suspenders until the next time you visit!

Retrospective Summer '08

Hello all ... well as you can see I am trying to clamber back onto the blogging milk-float that was S&N (not to compare to the juggernaut that is I&I) ... as previously suggested by fellow bloggers I was advised to ditch all previous entries stored in my blogging brain and just start from ... now! But I can't let you miss out on all that good stuff so will attempt to fill in the blank from May (yes May!) as we go on from now. As the dates get more distant I will make sure that any blogs that are not obvious are linked to at the top so you won't miss them! Enjoy below :)