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TJ’s operation 4 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
A couple of years ago Rob noticed a small lump on TJ’s flank. It slowly got bigger, so last year the vet took a biopsy of it. It wasn’t cancerous, just a lipoma (soft fatty tissue mass), but we were a...
Bathroom Renovation - Complete 7 May 2013 | 09:28 am
Come in, let me show you around… The first thing you see on entering the bathroom is the basin. The shower screen is to the right: The shower screen is hinged so it can be pushed to one side when it...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 24 2 May 2013 | 03:32 pm
I decided to keep working on the walls today. Where I had hand-painted (cut in) the corners of the bathroom that the roller couldn’t get to, it looked a bit lighter than the rolled areas, so I hand-pa...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 23 1 May 2013 | 11:55 am
Got two coats of paint on the ceiling and walls of the bathroom today. Not sure about the colour, but hopefully it will look better once it’s dry. Tomorrow I’ll do the window and door, and possibly th...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 22 30 Apr 2013 | 12:13 pm
I’ve got a few days free until my next batch of work arrives, so am taking this opportunity to paint the bathroom (was too tired last weekend). So today I washed down all the surfaces that I wanted t...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 21 25 Apr 2013 | 03:36 pm
We were planning to paint the bathroom today, but scraping back the flaking paint on the inside of the window frame took much longer than expected. While I was doing that, Rob washed the toilet walls ...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 20 19 Apr 2013 | 04:57 pm
The bath repair man was here today and was able to fix the damage to the bath – yay! Now we have another problem. The soft-close toilet seat won’t actually stay up when Rob wants to use it. The proje...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 19 18 Apr 2013 | 03:01 pm
This morning the glass guy came to install the shower screen (it took less time to make the screen than I expected!). The screen has been made so that it folds back out of the way when not in use, so ...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 18 17 Apr 2013 | 07:47 pm
This morning the project manager came in to do a few things, including mounting a bracket on the wall for the panel heater, and giving the plaster a sand in preparation for painting. He also arranged ...
Bathroom Renovation – Day 17 16 Apr 2013 | 04:04 pm
The carpenter came back this morning to fit off the accessories. He installed two towel rails, finished off the strip drain for the shower, rehung the toilet and bathroom doors and put a door stop in ...
