We have arrived in the Lakes for a long weekend away – hurray 🙂

The window locks have been fitted to the conservatory today and so we are now all secure.  Vicky has moved in most of Elliot’s toys to find that surprise, surprise – we have not got enough storage for his crap, erm stuff…

Will get the TV installed next week and the speakers etc purchased, ready for deployment – awesome 7.1 surround system is on the way….

We have had almost NO progress in the conservatory during the week, so the “possible” launch party will not be taking place as previously advertised 🙁

Simon invited the conservatory company up for a meeting at Fork Hall during the week, where they accepted that we are a couple of days from being done.  It was also agreed that we would not continue with the messing around sending a guy (Alan it turns out) for a couple of hours at a time – we would instead wait a few days and get a couple of FULL days.  We almost got it – we have a guy coming out on Tuesday next week for one whole day…..

We await with baited breath…

Well, the flooring is almost completed, although almost is NOT completed right?

Alan (the finisher) has stated that today was his last scheduled day on our job – not a great result given that there is at least one day more work to be done.

The alarm guy is coming tomorrow to fit the alarm side of things in, then the electrician on Wednesday to finalise the power side of things.  We are kind of hoping / expecting that the project manager will be sending somebody to actually finish the job as otherwise we are left with 98% of a job done and as usual it is the last 2% that makes the job right 🙁

The walls are up, the glass in, the plastering done and now the painting of the internal walls complete.  There are a few finishing touches required such as heated floor mats and the laminate flooring.

The 3 seater and 2 seater are waiting to go in (in the garage currently) and some of Elliots’ new furniture is here also – storage solutions and table and chairs.

We should be 100% good to go by next weekend.

Simon is actually at home for a whole week this week 🙂

Simon has travelled out to Seattle over on the West Coast of the USA today – he arrived at midnight UK time and is 8 hours behind the UK presently.

He has a couple of meetings to conduct over on the west coast and will be heading home again on Wednesday evening.  He should be home by Thursday evening and hopefully this will be the last international travel for a few months.