We are busy at the moment preparing to have a new kitchen installed, we have had some structural work done and are currently sealing the Travetine flooring that will be laid once the old kitchen is taken out. This is due to happen a week tomorrow, the 16th Feb. We have allowed 2 days to take the old kitchen out, three days to lay the floor, the new kitchen should be delivered on Saturday 21st, then start installing the following Monday. We will be a fortnight without a kitchen so that is going to be fun, I suspect our local pub, The Blue Bell Inn, will see an increase in takings over that period!
The snow has not caused us major problems although it did take me an hour to get to work on Thursday, and Gill left work in Stamford at lunchtime on Friday as it was snowing heavily again.
I lost a good friend recently, I met Geoff through sailing connections a number of years ago, and finding that he was also a fellow Mason secured our friendship. We often visited each others lodges, his was at Chilwell in Nottingham, and although he was diagnosed with lung cancer just over a year ago, he had seemed to be doing well, I was so hoping he would be able to see me go into the chair of Alexandra lodge this coming October, he would have been going through the chair of his own lodge at the same time had things gone to plan, but sadly, not so.
We have just been out to lunch at Moulton with Frank and Mo, and it was good to see some friends of many years standing, Clive and Jakki Mayes, who we have not seen for a couple of years. Hi Clive!!
Thats it for now.
