Manic Mess, Mayhem and My Life!

I thought a quick blog post to describe what's going on at the moment in my writing world. The title really describes my life perfectly.

We've been in a partial lockdown since March and while life is starting to get back to a semi normal state, it's still fairly wild. In the middle of all this carry on, we agreed to bring forward our plans for the installation of our kitchen. If you're asking why? We've decided to use a local business and they want to keep their staff employed. So we hurried everything forward by 5 months (which has been more problematic than we hoped for and meant buying the new appliances now as well as paying for the kitchen itself.) 

But on a bright note, we've hardly been out in nearly 2 months so, what the hey!

So today, I'm sitting at my keyboard and working on blog posts and newsletter because with people coming and going, the dog in my office with the baby gate up and the cats locked in our bedroom and noise... well, you can imagine!

We did have a seriously ugly kitchen. And, as we're discovering, there's nothing here that is quite what it seems. The rangehood? Yeah, it actually doesn't duct anywhere. The yellow was ugly and we just didn't fit. So, what do you do under these circumstances? You renovate!

So, we emptied cupboards and drawers (mind you the cutlery draw self destructed on us!) and clear everything out. Including all the old kitchen cabinets.

With everything out, you're free to paint! Maybe we aren't fabulous at it, but boy do we see a difference!

Of course, what's a new kitchen without new equipment? So fridge, dishwasher, tiles... and a coffee machine. 

I'll update tomorrow with installation pics!