Early start on a Saturday morning to take up the loft boards that Simon had badly installed some years ago, and add more to increase storage capacity up there. Thanks to uncle Tim, we now have the full main section boarded out and have made use of remaining boards to enable the use of off main board storage. The result is astounding – the is now almost a complete corridor of walkway space available and all goods are way better stored now.

Maybe in a couple of months we will perform a similar job on he side of the loft that is used to store suitcases and all he old kids clothes etc – I.e. loose board to better spread the load 🙂

Thanks Uncle Tim

No major drama but Pepsi is out of tablets so we needed to take him to the vet this am for a checkup before they would allow us to buy more 🙂

He has (as expected) a clean bill of health and we have a large box of drug number 1 with the easy flex chews on order to collect on Monday.  Elliot and Oliver went down to Palmer and Duncan with daddy to take Pepsi, although neither of them wanted to particularly.  Elliot seemed to think that Pepsi was going to have his legs removed (??!!??) and Oliver was somewhat concerned over the other dogs in the waiting room.  Then he spied a cat – that changed everything for him and the trip was worthwhile it seems.

Elliot was not too happy with the smells in the place and didn’t seem to understand that there are lots of animals in the vet, so naturally there are smells lingering around from them all.

Mummy is working from home today, so the boys are all going to head out somewhere to get out of the way and leave the house a little quieter 🙂

Mummy started her month of contract work today, so was up and out of the house shortly after 7am 🙁  All after a crap night sleep as well – firstly with the worry of the alarm going off (come on – we’ve all been there with that one) and secondly with Olly waking up 🙁

So, the boys did a little shopping and a lot of playing…  We head out to get some dog food for Pepsi and get an appointment for him so that he can have more of his tablets etc.  Then on to B&Q to get some wood to build a frame to fit Olly’s train set to the wall in the garage.  Finally, we went to the boys favourite shop – Toys R US – to spend some of their CHristmas cash 🙂

Elliot bought some (surprise, surprise) Star Wars LEGO and Olly got some Cars colour changers – fun with water 🙁

Daddy fitted Olly’s Train set to the wall in the garage so that it hinges up to the wall when out of use and down, with legs that automatically pop out to support it when he wants to use it.  Hopefully it will be usable out there and not too cold – the board is just too big to leave lying in the dining room or conservatory and is thus getting damaged unnecessarily 🙁  This solution should be more permanent and keeps it safely out of the way when not in use 🙂