Busy weekend

As usual in the blueadt house we've been really busy. The loft is now practically empty with a few things up there that are there to stay plus my yarn stash That will be coming down again in a couple of weeks when I've got some new storage boxes & will thereafter live in the spare room where I can get access to it easily.

DH & DD were up & down the ladder yesterday to the loft & I own up to only going up once just to see how empty it was as I'm petrified of heights. I was kept busy trying to get rid of all our unwanted junk on Freecycle - just over half has gone now including the bigger items & the rest will end up at a charity shop by the end of the week if nobody else wants it.

DD (who is currently grounded for a week due to being a little brat so no swimming - read Monday & Tuesday nights at home for me - Yay!!! ) is on cloud 9 as the RSPCA rang this morning to say that they have a hamster available. She's wanted one for the past 5 years ever since Charlie died & we asked her to wait until the extension was finished & it'll join my stash in the spare room - (but not to bed down in - I'll make sure of that). I didn't want the cage to go in her room in case it keeps her awake at night & daren't have it downstairs as the dogs would love to 'hunt hamster'. An Inspector is coming tomorrow afternoon to see if we're suitable & hopefully I'll be able to collect it on Friday. Apparently it was found in a park as some dimwit had released it 'into the wild'.

DD has now gone to bed armed with plently of reading material to learn how to look after it. I know that the majority of care will fall to me but I like hamsters so don't mind. We were offered two beautiful gerbils when we went to the RSPCA but I can't stand rodent tails so had to refuse. She's is also debating what name to give it - gender isn't known yet but so far it's a toss up between Ron & Ginny - I suggested Harry but that met utter distain.

No knitting but instead I've been crocheting. Hello Mango helped me with a pattern on Friday night at knitting group & I'm now on row 6 of a beanie hat for DD. The yarn is Jaeger Matchmaker Merino Aran in red. Photos soon.

We nearly had a very miserable & cold weekend. When he got up yesterday morning DH realised that the central heating boiler (housed in the garage) had died - upon hearing this news I snuggled down under the duvet again & didn't venture out into the bedroom. Within an hour he had removed the broken part, bought a new part which was expensive & replaced it so the house is nice & warm again.

Don't you just love practical guys!