I threw a little strop today, when I thought that the fixture for the wall mounted taps had been incorrectly fitted as a counter-mounted fixture. This turned out to be incorrect – it was properly installed, but simmering discontent remains as several other things we’d specified have not been done, such as a heated towel […]
A sort of savings
A better work day than yesterday, partly because I sent off the text I’d written to the person I’d written it for, and he was very pleased with it. So that started the morning off well, and the next task went rather more smoothly. In the afternoon, the GF and I returned to the paint […]
Weary old day
I am rather struggling with this new contract I’ve taken up. It’s strange because I should be able to just fire things out without much thought – it’s fairly simple writing work, far less complex than pretty much anything I’ve written or edited in years. I was talking it through with the GF, and he […]
Paint job
It was a funny sort of weekend, with both of us feeling anxious and tense about the flat and its progress, as well as various work related matters. For me, there was the annoyance of one of my longstanding clients revealing that as of two years ago invoices have to be submitted using a special […]
Day 2 of too many
Day 2 was marginally better than day 1, in that I found some work to do, but not much. In the evening I had a pleasant chat with the chief editor of our magazine. We are discussing how to set up a charity to accept small payments for workshops etc, so that the magazine can […]
Day 1 of too many
Today was the first day of a new contract, and it felt quite dismal. This is for the contract for which I was interviewed without realising it about a month ago. For one, it’s a far more corporate setup than I was prepared for (though I should have been), with corporate email address, Microsoft Teams, […]
Old town crowds
The GF had a day off – he, unlike me, gets public holidays – and in the afternoon, after I had finished some work, we took the tram over to the Sultanahmet area, planning to take advantage of thinned crowds on a Monday to visit a few sites. It turned out to be very crowded […]
Saving the arches
Before the weekend we had received a message from the architect that the marble guy could not put marble on the arches in the bathroom, so she suggested straightening them out. This was not acceptable as I really like those arches, so today we went for a council of war at which it was concluded […]
Sunday on the peninsula
This afternoon we went for the reverse of a couple of walks we had done before: first to Balat, along the water on a walkway that has only recently opened up and that had nice views over to the Pera/ Kasimpasha shore of the Golden Horn. We had coffee at the usual place, sitting on […]
Lights, lights, lights
Today we went and ordered most (though not all) of the lights for the flat. The place the GF had discovered seemed to have good quality and was certainly a slick operation, very helpful folks. So we have ordered single and double spots for the side lights, rod-shaped hallway lights, pendants for the kitchen, and […]