... o' mice an' men gang aft agley. Thanks, Mr. Rabbie Burns - I'm right in the middle of it. So apologies for no craft-room photos and no pages to show you, due to the aforesaid schemes ganging aft etc. Here's what happened in numbers - and thanks to Julie for the inspiration. If building sagas bore you, look away now, or hop to the pictures and links below!
30 ... centimetres. That's by how much the architect has mis-measured a wall in the new extension.
4 ... windows and rolled steel joists are now in the wrong place as the builders tried to compensate for the error, but compounded it.
51 ... the sum total of the digits in the builder's mobile phone number which I had to ring this evening when I realised the roof was leaking in ...
6 ... places, three onto my bed and three onto the floor. Oh, that should be ....
7 ... as I realised when I set my cup of tea down with an unexpected splash on the window ledge: rainwater having seeped down from the cavity wall, pooled, and then dribbled over the edge and onto the carpet below.
2 ... is the number of Neurofen it took to settle my headache. And the number of the aforesaid builders who made the ...
30 ... mile round trip to sort the roof before it got dark. On a more cheery note, there are ...
99 ... pages in a special issue of ...
- a whole mag dedicated to craft-spaces and which I found when tidying up in preparation for my own craft-room move. Glossy and immaculate spaces, some of them huge, and some wonderfully equipped:
Pam RuBert, whose craft area is 23000 (yes, I have the correct number of zeros on there) square feet and was a peanut-butter factory in a previous existence.
The Project Girl who designs for My Mind's Eye, and has some pretty craft corners to share.
ScrapnCube who produces these:
Scrapbox which makes these: do watch the video!
Right - off to do a tour of the premises clutching buckets and mops. See you Friday!
