Scrapbook Pages

I don't have a card to post. Life has been a little unkind in the last day or so. More later!!!! Instead I thought I would post a double page scrapbook page that I did for my friend's daughter. Gail liked the scrapbook I did for my niece when she was 21 showing her life to date in pictures, so she asked me to do the same for her daughter. I tell you, I find it much easier doing it for family members! I think the journalling  is more difficult  when you don't know somebody so well. I do know Harriet obviously - but not all the little personal  family things and "in" jokes etc.

My Project

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The script isn't showing up well in the picture  but it is quite funny so I'll type it out .  "Here you are wearing the hats mum made for the village fetes. A photographer from the local newspaper was there one time and was keen to photograph you in your wonderful creation. However, true to form you were having none of it. Nothing daunted he whipped the hat off your head, put it onto another child, and the picture duly appeared in the paper the following week - sans Harriet!"

Now let me tell you my tale of woe!  At half past nine on Thursday evening I went to make a cup of tea.  I turned on the tap and heard a loud "Splat". Suddenly water is pouring out over the kitchen floor at a great rate of knots from underneath the sink unit.  I'm yelling for John who is upstairs in the lounge with the television on.  By the time he got down there was a swimming pool in the kitchen - and still the water poured! He then had to go back upstairs and up into the loft and managed to switch off the flow from the drinking water tank, by which time we had literally lost about 60 gallons.  It's incredible how quickly it flows out! My regular blog buddies are aware that we are not on the mains and so have a well and holding tanks in the loft.  My precious drinking water! Sob! Sob!  Our house is open plan with two entrances into the kitchen and I was desperately trying to keep the water from the hall and also from the back corridor, both of which have hardwood floors. The kitchen floor is ceramic tile fortunately. It took us about an hour and half to get things cleaned up and dried as best we could but the water was underneath the units obviously.  We were both soaking wet and looked as if we had just survived a shipwreck!! John lit the woodburner in the kitchen so that it would help dry everything out and then we went to bed - shattered!!

John was up again just after five because he was obviously concerned about trying to sort out the problem. Needless to say I was up too. He had to take out all the plumbing/ drainage pipes etc (I make a good plumber's mate but I think I need to learn some of the terminology. Lol!!) and the base unit from under the sinks so that he could see what the problem was. Then there was a trip into town to a plumber's merchant and then came the actual repair work. By the time it was all done and the base unit replaced ( not without a few curses I've got to admit!) it was half past two.  Even though everywhere was still a tip I just had to stop for a bite of lunch before tackling the clean up. Our kitchen is more of a family room and we spend a lot of time in there but I couldn't face sitting eating in such a mess so we actually used the dining room - a very rare occurrence when there is just the two of us.  All it needs now is a good very hot wash to try and clean the towels which I used to help in the dry up operation. We had a good laugh afterwards when we realised just how bad we looked!

Sorry to burden you with all of that. If you are still here I hope you are having a better time than me! Lol!
Today I am having a very restful day prior to my epic day tomorrow.

Love and hugs from Christine xx