November 2008 Archives

Shoe rack

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Between the two of us we have a lot of shoes! There's a handy space behind the front door that was obviously made just for this purpose, so now Mini has installed four shelves there:

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Plenty of space for shoes, hats, gloves, juggling bags as well as an Out Tray for post and sandwiches!

Cupboards and shelves

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Our bedroom has a large built-in wardrobe with a corner shelf next to the head of the bed. The shelf is very useful for putting glasses, alarm clock and so on, but the only place to put the rest of the normal stash of bedside paraphenalia is in a pile on the floor.

Mini has now cunningly amended the built-in wardrobe by adding a cupboard under the shelf. The cupboard faces front, and there is a little "letter box" open-fronted drawer facing the bed, in which to put the glasses and the alarm clock, freeing up the shelf for a plant.

Here's the front of the cupboard - you can see the door waiting to be fitted in the bottom left of the pic:

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Here's the side with the letter box:

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You can see the original (four-inch-thick) shelf above the letter box.

BT Openreach efficiency

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We were promised phone and broadband by midnight on such-a-date. When it still didn't work at 11pm we called the provider and they said Oho, it's a line problem, we'll refer it to BT Openreach who handle all that kind of thing. 

Bah Humbug, we thought, now who knows how long it will be before we have broadband working!

About 10am the next morning, BT called from a van parked outside to ask whether it would be a good time to come round. They popped in, discovered that the double glazing installers had cut the phone line where it came through the front door, installed a new master socket, and left us with working broadband in under 12 hours from the time we complained.

Thumbs up for good customer service.

Picket fence

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Moving years of accumulated garden rubbish from the side of the garage meant easy access up to the house through the mud, so it's now fenced off with a neat white picket fence:

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Now at least people have to go right past our front window in order to sneak into the back garden.

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