And the end of the second week of the Kitchen saga .

Oh please let this be finished soon - I want to cook a decent meal

Mr Spider

You are a BAD man - but that would be fun

They don't know what's coming to them.

If I say that the last 5 times we had to go to the Small Claims Court over some rather silly things [ including a claim against out Local Council ] we won , they'll need more than tin hats - full body armour will be required .

I reckon that by tomorrow afternoon I will have a gas cooker

but it won't be the one that I had chosen

They are expecting me to make a bodge job of this

The fact that it's higher as well so will not actually fit in the height of the housing hasn't dawned on them . It sticks up about half an inch - so will interfere with the correct placing of the hob . They expect me to put it slap bang against the kitchen wall - and a cooling fan does need a bit of space , not to mention the fact that it has to actually be connected to the gas supply .

Suppliers have been told and tomorrow should be interesting .

I wanted a built in oven , and I'll have to end up with a slot in one.

I've waited for 10 years to get a proper cooker and believe me this will be what I'm getting .

For the last 10 years I've coped with a hob that has 2 halogen rings , one of which is uncontrollable and 2 pretty slow radiant rings . My oven is a combination Microwave / convection .

I WANT A PROPER COOKER SO I CAN START TO BAKE AGAIN . I WANT A GRILL AS WELL

and I'm going to have them .

The oven does not fit in the oven housing - it's too darn big !!!

Finally - problem solved and it's all IDd.

Now we can get back to actually doing the kitchen once the floor has been put down again

This is weird

As everyone knows I rarely prefer a B&W shot BUT

the Lubitel one for me wins hands down .

It's just 'right'

Just having , what a friend in Rhode Island calls, a little drink in a nice wee crystal glass recovering from today's frustrations.

We found 2 double sockets in the downstairs sitting room which are connected to the Kitchen Circuit . That seems OK BUT we can't find WHERE the connection is - somewhere under the floor but after 3 hours it still hasn't been found !! These blasted sockets should be connected to the sitting room circuit !

Oh I have a wiring diagram of the house - but that was when the house was built in 1957 and the electrics have been changed added to etc so often that the original diagram is no longer any use

Good news is though, that all my phone sockets are now working properly

Hmmm

This made me remember a daft thing my husband did

He'd taken me to Church in Edinburgh and was making himself some coffee to have while he read the paper waiting for me .

Unfortunately he had to get out of the driver's seat to fill up the kettle , left his keys in the ignition , filled the kettle , shut the back door and a gust of wind caught the front door and it err........

He did attract a bit of attention in Church as folk spotted a stray unknown man walking down the aisle , carrying a kettle in his hand !! Wasn't it a good job I had my keys with me ?