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So, Harald announced this morning that he suffers from gout as well. We both commiserated with each other. He said it was because he loved beer. When I told him that I’d had enough suffering and had just stopped drinking last November, he shook his head and told me he couldn’t do that.
Harald was here to rid Mirinda of the carpet in her study and to lay a new wooden floor. I have been emptying the room, and distributing the contents throughout the house, gradually over the last fortnight. This is what it looked like before he arrived this morning.
Actually, just before he arrived I managed to man handle the Regency desk out of the room as well. This only left the IKEA desk, which I was leaning against to take the above photograph. When Harald arrived, we lifted and twisted it through the door and he was ready to start.
I left him to it and sat at my own desk doing admin, scanning and shredding, along with the girls.
Emma is always a bit wary of people working in the house. Normally, if I’m working in my study, Freya will sleep on my chair behind me while Emma is in the lounge on her rocking chair, watching, what we call, her television. This is the big windows that look out towards the road. Today, because Harald was working inside, she had to sit on my lap.
And so I worked away, surrounded by dogs. It was not easy, but fortunately short lived.
Harald worked until around 10am when he had to leave. The wood for the new floor was too cold and shouldn’t be laid until it is the same temperature as the room it is going in. He will return tomorrow to lay it.
Given that the rest of the house is filled with the contents of Mirinda’s study, it wasn’t like I could do much else so I remained, sequestered in my own study. I did take the girls for a walk but that was essentially it.
As for the Olympics, I watched a bit of ice dancing and was amazed.
