A council estate raised British city girl trying to make it in rural Canada

NEVER...............

Have a cunning plan without at least 3 maybe 4 backup cunning plans.

Tore down the drywall on the dividing wall - yay that went to plan!

Realised that inside the wall where the electrical is, that it's a bit - well - buggered for what I had planned. No problem - this is covered in the 'cunning' part of the plan. Uncle Ken is coming out this morning and he can fix it.

This is where it goes a bit tits up.

By 10am uncle Ken isn't here. Hmmmmm weird. WTF is he playing at  so call his house and his wife (who we'll call Auntie Laurie - because that's her name) explains that due to the weather / roads / astrological alignment and whatever the f**k else - Ken won't be coming today. But he'll call when it picks up a bit.

That's no shitting good, I have a half tore down wall with electrical gubbins poking out and no goddam way to fix it. He was supposed to be here, he was - after all - the main part of the cunning plan.

SHIT

So we got to this stage

Ever undaunted I have two options - ask on BE for suggestions or drink myself stupid.

The BE questions got the expected response (the better resoponse would have been - here let me wave my magic wand and fix it remotely for you - but that never came you useless lot) so, ready with a bottle of Captain Morgans in hand I'm moaning to some good friends on Crackbook.

Remeber those brainstorming sessions that were ever so popular at work in the 80'sand 90's? A group of likeminded women on Facebook works the same way - with a bit more swearing.

After a 10 minute conversation and some stellar ideas from the girls we now (thankfully) have a plan B - and i'm not even drunk yet - bonus :)

Just move the outlets to a safe place and still take down the wall :) Well thats easy - Darcy has more tools than Canadian Tire - I can find exactly what I need (proper tools are wicked btw - long gone are the days of using a stiletto as a hammer and a butter knife as a screwdriver).

Reciprocating saw / big hammer / 18v cordless drill at the ready we (and I mean me with the ivisible help of ma crew ;) ) get to this stage

So i'll clean up and am totally happy to leave it at this stage til Ken does show up. That should probably say IF Ken shows up - but we are at least past a point of no return that if it doesn't get fixed by the time Darcy gets home - well it's too late to put it back now :)

This entry then - is dedicated to my little nest of vipers - you know who you all are :)

Way to go.

01:46, Sunday 25 March 2012 .. Posted by BEVS

That's it from me what has been there . Way to go.

LOL

05:55, Sunday 25 March 2012 .. Posted by Howefamily

I LOVE reading your blog, it makes for very entertaining reading. Takes me right back to using a stilletto as a hammer!