*R.I.P.Pink Passage!*
OK....here it is at long last......I have an anouncement to make.......
My horrendous Pink Barbie Passage is NO MORE!! (fanfare)
At great personal cost (aching back, shoulders, arms and well, everything - cuz I did it myself!) I can now give you....ta dah....
My Magnificent Magnolia Passage!!
before!
first coat....
second coat........tah dah!!
Mind you - it was touch and go at first.......you try getting one coat of Magnolia coverage on top of Barbie Pink !!!
So.....THREE coats later and GG's in Magnolia heaven!
Took me two full days to do the downstairs and upstairs but it was worth every ache, every pain .....and even the Asbo I'll probably be served with along with the petition from the neighbours for my removal from the street! This would be due to the fact that I had Snow Patrol and Keane blasting at full volume for 48hours non-stop...well, I like music while I work!
Unfortunately my ecstatic joy was to be short-lived......my middle daughter is getting married next Thursday and I have also made and iced the wedding cake...
which up until yesterday looked a bit like the Leaning Tower of Pisa because she wanted all the tiers stuck together (all the fashion apparently!) Anyhoo, with a bit of help from some rolled up ready-roll icing and some dressmaking pins I managed to rectify this.
Sadly, however, I was unable to rectify the the holiday company failing to inform the bride and groom that the honeymoon hotel is closed for refurbishment until Nov !!........or the other minor problem that has manifested itself in the GG household.....
I have overnight guests arrivng for the wedding next week and thought I'd like to have my 1970's Pampas bathroom suite replaced by a nice white porcelain toilet and wash basin.....easy enough I hear you say.....aaah, but this is GG's house - where the plumbing system is more like spaghetti junction than spaghetti junction !!
day 1: GG requests dahling hubby to purchase nice white toilet and basin from Aldi - cuz they were on offer and family Friend offers to fit them in time for the arrival of aforementioned wedding guests
day 2: Old basin is removed from bathroom, new basin is fitted - air bubble found in system (it had been there since the old suite was fitted but I didn't like to say!) Lots of huffing and puffing by friend and dahling hubby......and they were doing something really weird with a length of rubber tubing.......?'
day 3: Old toilet is removed.......new one put in place....and......it doesn't fit !!! GG doesn't stress too much cuz she's been living in the House That Jack Built for the last 31 years!
day 3.5: GG has lightbulb moment!Why not put the downstairs toilet upstairs and the new upstairs toilet downstairs?? You see new toilet is one of those 'close-coupled' thingummybobs and the old one is a 'low-level' cistern.( Are you amazed at my technical knowhow ?) Friend and dahling hubby look blankly from one to the other and then at GG - then nod their heads and mumble something making it sound like they had the idea in the first place! GG doesn't mind at all - as every woman will know you get more out of 'em if you let 'em have the glory even if they didn't have the notion!! Anyway, GG wants the ruddy thing sorted before imminent arrival of guests!
day 4: Old toilet is being removed by dahling hubby when suddenly the air is a vibrant shade of blue! Low-level plastic cistern (from downstairs toilet - are you keeping up with all this??) is cracking as he removes it!! No problem says GG - we'll just go and buy a new one.....a nice porcelain one......hmm. Three hours and two heated discussions with dahlling hubby (well, more threatened divorce actually!) we are the proud owners of a Twyfords low-level porcelain cistern !
Family friend goes to fit it that night and........it's out of alignment with that tubey thing that pokes out of the wall and into the cistern!! It is at this point that GG hits the Rescue Remedy ...big time!
day 5: GG and dahling hubby go to purchase what looks like a big white plastic periscope, dog-leg thingies, more copper piping and some bendy hose stuff, .........and a nice bottle of Australian Shiraz (well, that was on offer too!).
Friend works some magic with the big white periscope, the bendy tubing and the dog-legs.....and hey presto, it fits......but there's another air bubble!! So, out comes the rubber tubing again....something to do with 'blowing the system through by connecting the hot and cold feed of the washing machine to form a circuit'.....I dunno but any blokes reading this will probably know what it means!
Sooooooo, Sunday today - day of rest........not! My house looks like a nuclear fall-out bunker, I have just one small functioning bathroom (downstairs shower room still has no toilet yet cuz Friend is having a well-earned day off!)....I'm back to work tomorrow.... the guests will arrive next week all rested and excited and looking forward to the proceedings......while GG skips around hysterically with tousled hair, a crazed grin on her face and a bottle of Rescue Remedy spray welded to her right hand !!
Ah well.....Happy Daze!
Sorry this was another GG novel - but thanks for letting me sound off.......again!! You're a great lot!
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Lots of chuckles reading that!!!!!
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) but im sorry GG i could only find you a pink one!........
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