Make that 8 days....

So much for the solemn promise that the bathroom would be fully functional by Sunday evening. I'm not sure how much they have done today at all, apart from perhaps fitting a few pipes - the builder popped in for a few minutes this evening to connect the new toilet, which as it turns out does not have a seat and we still have to flush it manually... He promises he will finish it all off tomorrow. I will believe it when I see it.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Bloody builders

The bathroom renovation that was supposed to take 5 days has been stretched to 6 days and now 7 days, possibly a little more. We were supposed to have the bath in by Tuesday or Wednesday by the latest. It went in late on Thursday, so we were visiting a friend to use his shower and washing in the kitchen sink for a few days. The toilet still does not flush, though instead of using a bucket there is now a pipe next to it, which sort of works. The tiler was here till nearly10pm last night, and I needed the loo from about 5pm, but there is no door on the bathroom so I couldn't even just ask to use the bathroom quickly.

Yesterday we were told that they are tiling the floor today, so we won't be able to use the bathroom at all for 24 hours! Thank goodness its a Saturday so we can stay over with friends (who were meant to be staying over with us) - had it been a weeknight we would have struggled. Given the mood we are both in I think we would have stayed in a B&B and sent the bill to our landlord!

Grrrrr!

Yay Soap!

Guess who has a new hobby?

Thats right, I have started moulding soap, and its pretty cool. I made my first soaps yesterday, and found them really easy to do. I am still waiting for the soap dyes to arrive, so my first soaps are chunks of coloured commercial soap in a clear, scented soap base, and they look pretty cool. I am going to try making spirals today :)

I have a whole helluva lot of clear soap base to experiment with because we found 11kg of it on ebay and it worked out a whole lot cheaper per kilo than buying it in smaller quantities. Ali kindly lugged it home in her backpack, even though its bloody heavy! (Must be love...)

Having so much is all right though, because the 'loaf' mould I bought holds around 800g at a time. Guess what we will be including in everyone's Christmas presents this year?

In other (unrelated) news, work on our bathroom starts tomorrow, so we have to pack up all the accumulated junk from the past few years. With luck we will be able to use the new bath by Tuesday morning, but more likely only by Wednesday morning, or Thursday if we are unlucky. We will have to ask friends if we can visit for a shower! The only reason this work is happening is because the cheapy plastic bath cracked a while ago, so we have been unable to use it to bath in, only shower. Not too much of a problem, but it does need replacing and the landlord has now managed to find a builder/plumber he likes. It's a nuisance having builders in, but I will be glad to have a modern bathroom suite in there! It has been getting a little dire recently.