Hugo and I started tiling the floor in the arrière cuisine today; I hadn’t envisaged having an assistant, certainly not one whose idea of helpful was to remove all the tile spacers and scatter them around the floor, but he had great fun, also chasing the tape measure as I tried to work out how and where to cut the awkwardly shaped tiles!
Nick assures me that I’ll become quicker with practice, but at today’s rate it will take about 2 weeks to finish:-( He also tells me that he’s given me this job because the floor becomes “ever so slightly undulating” as it reaches the other end. Hmmmm, perhaps it’ll be even more of a challenge than I’d thought! Hey ho; I wanted a rustic finish and it doesn’t sound as though perfection is on the cards, especially as this is the first time I’ve laid floor tiles. Oh well, it’ll be another new skill to acquire and there will certainly be no shortage of opportunity for practice.
Looking good so far, let me know if you need a hand at all. . . 🙂
Thank you, that really is a very tempting offer, it would certainly speed things up. But I don’t feel it’s fair to ask you to spend your holiday working, (well, apart form the odd bit of roofing anyway!) especially with your poor old knees!
Well, it’s up to you girlie, I don’t mind.
Well, if you really don’t mind…. and if your knees wouldn’t mind. I would hate to be the cause of you hobbling round like an old man!!!!
OLD MAN!? OLD MAN!? My knees may creak like an old man, my eyesight and hearing may be failing me, and I may actually look like an old man (in poor light!!!) But I certainly don’t FEEL like an old man, in fact, I feel like a young woman, preferably wearing . . . . Oh, ok, best not go into that!!! ;-)))
No, best not! There’ll be nobody here matching that description anyway; sorry!