(Used to be) Springwood Colquhouns: Booking our kitchen makeover

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Booking our kitchen makeover

Ian, Ishbel and I were out and about early (comparatively) yesterday morning to have a look at some kitchen showrooms. Two we visited were closed, not good in terms of availability I thought but we have an appointment for one guy to come tomorrow evening and the other mob will ring tomorrow to make their appointment.

We attacked the huge amount of spider plant in the garden after we got back. We've barely scratched the surface of the problem and already have 4 big bin bags full of the stuff. We're still considering what to do with the agapanthus. Hugh from the Brigade who works in LandCare/bush weeding for a living hates agapanthus with a passion as it spreads so easily in to the bush but we've always kind of liked it! There are whopping great clumps of it were we are thinking of putting a veggie garden though.

We had Karen, Dan and Ben round for dinner last night before Ben goes up to his Dad for the holidays. Karen and Ben had popped in during the morning while Ian, Ish and I were out so we'd missed them. Hundreds of tacos, apple pie and lashings of ice cream later and we were all full up.

Today we are off down to town to see Cirque du Soleil - Dralion. Looking forward to it very much.

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