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Apart from anything else, I have to accommodate a dirty great dresser somewhere when they are doing the kitchen Uzzi!

I didn't even mean to buy it, Uzzi!

Sharron knows that she will love it all when it is done. Sharron is quietly working through what needs doing.

Unfortunately, this other mad woman who lives in her head at the moment is running about like a headless chicken and shouting about the futility of the situation.

I have been through worse and I am looking forward to the end result very much. It is a good reason to start chucking things out too.

Have decided that I will wait until after Christmas and then I will get stuck in.

No point in having a panic until you have to on the 18th Jan and by then you will be so excited about all your improvements that you won´t have time to panic.
Mind I would be a gibbering wreck by the 18th lol

Just think of the upside of it all you deserve it.

I understand your panicking self very well, Sharron, and have had my own version over the years, but you know what? I got through whatever it was that was freaking me out, and you will too.

Try and look past the time that the work is being done, and do whatever it takes to stay as calm as you can. Write lists if it helps, where you want things to go, what stuff you need to get etc etc

Just think by Easter you will have a different home, with lots of the things you always wanted and some you might not have lol, but it will be your new start and well deserved.

Lizxx

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Just found you here, Sharron.

Delighted for you to be having the home improvements, nothing raises the spirits more. Understand your nervousness, though.

Good luck with it all, take care, x :-) <3

some for those three "organising" men to do?



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You aren't having the heaters fitted on the floor so stop worrying yourself silly......as long as the wall space is free where they need to fit the heaters thats all there is to worry about for now.

anything that needs to be moved out the way they will do it,,,,

,,infact a bit of eye flutter they may even bring some down stairs for you, ;-) :-D :-D :-D.

If theres anything that you that you dont want, ask about it may do someone a good turn,

One reason I am having to get things moved about it that we still have front room furniture upstairs because we have been slowly redecorating.

Because there is still a three seater sofa and a large desk in the front bedroom along with two filing cabinets and other things the back bedroom contains, wait for it, a 5' bed, a four door wardrobe, a three door wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a large dressing table.

God alone knows what might be under the bed, it hasn't been moved for eight years.

my kitchen goes in after Christmas
when the builders not got a lot of work on bless him
for now its stored in Stray garage
then its stripping the front room
there's no rest fore the wicked lol :-D :-D

ive had the new front room curtains for three years
they are still in the wrapper in the loft waiting

It is all going on at the same time with two different teams of contractors.

At the moment my logical, controlled side is coping beautifully, planning and organizing, while this unfamiliar, other part of me is going into meltdown.

I am supposed to be going to the village Christmas lunch today but have decided that I can't cope with it this year.

We will get through it and I am very much looking forward to the new kitchen and have everything planned, my own paint and tiles, dipping into the savings because this is the rainy day I saved for I think.

It was all planned for but not for it to all happen together.

That bit is all being run the same way as I have been running things but there is this mad little person running about inside my mind causing chaos and disruption.

I must say, when I was gibbering, I had lots of support from lovely people here, as well as friends where I live.

You were all wonderful, and I very much appreciated the help & good wishes from everyone. <3

One step at a time Sharron, even if they're only baby steps....... you will soon have a lovely new kitchen & a nice warm house. :-)

You could think of it as a slight setback to your copingnessness, but once it's done, it will be the start of a lovely new year with heating, a new kitchen and a real attack on the rest of the house.
Hopefully - the workmen will never darken you door again. :-D :-D

You'll be fine Sharron,,,,,,you just had it sprung on you and not something you have instigated yourself so feel less in control.,,,just work towards whats happening first,,,,,,the kitchen? then just concentrate on that,,,,,,when the heating gets put in,,,it may mean just moving some stuff from one side of the bedroom to the other.

Gibbering imposter is actually feeling nauseous this morning. Silly cow!

I felt the same Sharron, after our flood. The only rooms that weren't flooded were the living room, kitchen & the study.......... and they were full of "stuff" from all the other rooms.

We had workmen here for a week. If they didn't like the mess, too bad! There was nowhere else it could go.

The worken couldn't start until the house dried out.... we had 12 big heater/blower machines in the house for over a week.

Nothing I could do about it, so I stopped gibbering & panicing, sat on my bum and read books for weeks.......... until DH got pneumonia and ended up in hospital for a week.

THEN I was a gibbering wreck.

The real Sharron understands all this.

Unfortunately, there is some sort of gibbering, illogical person who is masquerading as Sharron and that person can't quite handle it all at the moment.

Don't panic Sharron, if the workmen don't like the look of your house they can lump it. You live there not them ;-). That's the way I look at it <3. I had my kitchen ripped out followed by the bathroom just months later. A bit messy and noisy at the time but well worth it now.

Now Sharron, WHY ARE YOU PANICING??????

Obviously you want the new kitchen, the workmen don't care what your house looks like so just let them know where they can step and let them get on with it.

THEN YOU CAN CRUMPLE IN YOUR NEW KITCHEN. :-D under your solar panels (and heating is always a good thing. you never know when it might go down to -2! BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ) ;-)

As long as they have room to do their job and get where they need to thats all the workmen will be bothered about.

If you need to move stuff out for a few days can you borrow a tent just to put all the none perish stuff and things you wont need daily.

No point in rushing everything - they may make a mess!!

As for things like the hospital bed - just say why it's there.
Don't be ashamed of the state your house, it's the way you had to live to give Fred such a wonderful life, and that meant you had no time to redecorate etc. There were more important things to do with your life.

The kitchen fitters won't be there too long, but long enough to get to know them. You never know, they may paint the walls for you. If they don't - you'll have a wonderful new kitchen to paint :-D

The solar panel and heating fitters will be there a day - two at the most. Find a good book to read, or some games to play, like monopoly etc, shut yourself, OH and the cat in the last room they will be doing (providing it's not the kitchen and bathroom). Take a kettle (find out when the electricity will be off), and everything needed for a brew, and a pile of edible goodies, and just think about the reduced bills, heat in every room, and lovely sparkling kitchen you will have.

They're there to do a job, not judge you.
I have a friend who used to regularly do work in council houses, I can assure you, your house will be a palace compared to some. He even said mine wasn't 'bad' (he was looking at the amount of what he calls 'junk', I call 'possessions').

To make you feel better, watch one of the 'hoarding' programmes - it always makes me feel better :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Above all - DON'T PANIC! <3

Well no, they are going to be putting in storage heaters in all the rooms.

No hiding. Cat to comfort, he is old and deaf.

It is not their arrival that is the problem.

The house needs sorting out. We had a hospital bed in the front room for a long time. Things were put where they would go and we lived around them.

I have been sorting the house and decorating as and when I could and now it all needs to be done at once.

Luckily I have my troupe of strange men.