Well – yesterday was our 1st anniversary. . . already! To be honest, time has flown by so fast it is scary – but they say time flies when you’re having fun.

Amazing to think that 1 year ago – I had one of the best days of my life, and a year later. . . it still feels good.

Quite a quiet day in the end (wife could NOT decide what she wanted to do) – but we did visit the place where we had our reception. Nice walk around there and a few memories as well. To think that this time last year we were on our way to Mexico is what really sucks!! 🙂

Well – 1 year down . . .many more to go – if she’s lucky of course! :)).

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. . .is exactly how it felt! My internet connection died . . .and suddenly you realise how much you need it, want it etc etc. I hated it!!!

I was grateful it was backup after a couple of days – it is silly in so many ways how it affects you!

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. . .and once it is tidy – I’ll have photos to prove it!

Plinths done now, skirting board done. . .just tidy up bits for me to finish (ie sealant/caulking) but nothing major. Still got one loose tile + doors to replace. . but the main bit . . the actual KITCHEN . . is finished! 7 weeks is all it took – only SEVEN! Not the 2-3 expected. . .

But it is done and that is the most important thing. Just need to keep it nice/clean and tidy – yeh like that is gonna happen 🙂

I’ll take some finished photos today – and put them up. Overall I’m happy with it – few niggles but nothing major. Definately need a tumble dryer as the big hole waiting for it keeps staring at me!

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Hopefully today will be the final bit of the kitchen. Today – the plinths should go on . . . which finally draws a line under the whole thing!

Then photo’s – summary – and a vow to NEVER do this again!

We do have one loose tile which needs fixing. . .but I can live with that for the short term.

So – fingers crossed, if it isn’t today it won’t be for a couple of weeks as the builders are going on vacation. . .

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The wine is fermenting nicely at the moment – just given it a little “push down” to move the pulp floating towards the bottom and got some nice hissing and bubbles. Also – hoping that it keeps its colour, as it looks GREAT 🙂 It is a nice pink colour at the moment, and if it stays that way (and clears that way) will look like a great bottle of rose wine 🙂

Smell wise – well . . it smells nice to be honest. Very fruity. I had a quick dip of the finger as well . . and taste isn’t too bad. If it “improves” from this point – could end up a great little thing. I’ve got about enough plums to make another two lots of this, so once I’ve moved this into the big glass jar I’m going to make a decision about the rest. If I think this is going to be nice – time to buy some more big glass jars (only £2.50ish each) and two more packs to make the wine with and make 2 gallons worth!!!

That will give me a total of 18 bottles of wine in about 6-8 weeks.

I’ll get some more photos at the next stage 🙂

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Was skimming through my blog and suddenly thought – I’m not really using categories. . .so out of the 2 or 3 people that may read this blog – they can’t just look up the kitchen whine or my wine making exploits. So I’ve now gone through ALL posts and setup some new categories *points to the right had column where categories are* 🙂

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Well after all my whining about the kitchen – I’ve decided to use some of the new space. . .to make wine 🙂

Out in the garden we have a large plum tree – which was FULL of plums.

Now – I’ve always wanted to make wine (and beer . . . ) but never got round to it. But seemed a silly waste of plums to just let them fall on the floor (and attract more wasps!) So to that end – I spent 30 mins collecting about 5KG of plums, washed and de stoned them. . .then whacked em in the freezer.

Today – I’ve bought the basics I need to start making wine. . .and tonight – I start!

I’ll keep it updated here (perhaps even with the odd photo WOW!).

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Well the tiler called yesterday saying his current job has overun which means he can’t come and do ours. . .it will be this week. . but he doesn’t know when. ARRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Phew – feel a little better now.

Still hoping it will be finished this weekend, so we can finish putting all the bits back in ready for a party!

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