A Place for Everything ...

 

A place for everything and everything in it's place ... oh how I wish this were true for the whole flat!!

But at least I now have my blogging and office station in place.  Sitting tapping away at my laptop on the bureau with the chaos of the rest of the stuff that still needs doing either behind me or in the other room I can pretend that life is organised and sorted.

I currently have a bit of a cheeky chappy fitting me a television aerial to the side of the flat, so I will be back to television reception for the weekend ... yay.  

Quick Tip:  never accept the first quoted price from a company no matter who they are.  His first quote for installing and supplying the aerial, and running a cable into the socket in the flat was for £169.99.  I let my face drop and said 'I didn't expect it to be that much', he quickly said 'What sort of price did you expect it to be?', I said 'At the very most £120'.   'I'll go and have a word with the office' he said.  Two minutes later he came back in and said 'yes, they agreed I can do it for that price'.  It seems a lot of money until you break it down, once I have the aerial I have no other television costs, apart from the TV Licence obviously which I have already changed to this address, as I watch on a Freeview box that records and rewinds/fast forwards etc.  So as a monthly rate over the year I expect to be here it's not too bad, and in my opinion in these strange times it's worth every penny for a years entertainment.

Anyway ... back to the bureau, as soon as I finished blog posting yesterday, well maybe after a bit of blog hopping a few cups of coffee, I set too filling the bureau with all my bits and pieces.  It was just so nice to have a piece of furniture I could put things away into.  Every basket or box emptied is like a whoosh of relief.

It didn't take long to find a place for all my bits and bobs.

I broke off for a sit down and a spot of well balanced lunch before the next stage.

Lining the lower drawers.

I cut out the paper for the top one and then thinking I was being very sensible, used this piece as a template to cut two more pieces of wallpaper the same size ready to go in the next two.  Yep, I completely forgotten that the top drawer is obviously narrower than the lower two due to the runners that sit on either side of it to support the flap when it is down.  Luckily I had a full roll of wallpaper so I cut out two more larger pieces that actually fitted.

Mission accomplished.  

Now the top two drawers hold all my stationery items and the bottom one is a sort of tool box of all the odds and sods that normally live in that dreaded 'kitchen drawer of doom' that we all have, and my kitchen drawer has space for much needed kitchen storage.

Tomorrow I will be sorting out the myriad of baskets that are holding bathroom stuff, and hopefully there will be a place for everything.

Sue xx