I wish I had a house to renovate....
You can ruddy well have mine. It's exhausting. None of the walls are straight, true or square in any sense of any of those words, so getting woodwork to fit is a real pain. mind you, I shouldn't complain really. It's all paid for and we get to do the work ourselves at our own pace - slowly. I keep telling myself that one day it won't look like a building site, but after ten years so far, you' be surprised how much it does look like a building site.
If it helps Bettie I have a spare bedroom, but no dishwasher.
I'm happy not to need renovation though.
Can you renovate people? Perhaps there's a grant?
So, let's all write breakaway surprise bestsellers, get rich and buy houses to renovate. Make it a goal. First draft must be done one year from today.
Thank kind of thing. NANO, in the slowpoke Cantina style. We can call it WANCY. Write Another Novel in the Cantina Year.
Morning Aliwood, Morning Bettiellee, how are the two nicest ladies around today?
Houses that need renovation around here are dirt cheap, that's why we bought it, because you didn't need a 'mort'gage to buy it. However, I am in with the rest of your WANCY plan, except mine would be Write A Novel in the Cantina Year, as I haven't even got to 5000 words yet. Oddly, I have always wanted to write one of those biiiiiiiggggggggg epic books like Tolkien or Tolstoy.
You know, I'm feeling quite perky now. I'm about to walk over to the big supermarket and gain a few things before all of our tanker drivers go on strike and people panic buy the shops out of everything except Marmite and Lychees. There's a charity shop over there so I'll check out the books there. There is even talk of using the 'coffee shop', I'm not sure I can cope with such reckless abandonment and as I really hate supermarket shopping this is not likely to be a good experience. Mind you, it has to be better than looking for a new place to live.
Good luck with that Bettie, and Debio, please have some hot choc ready for when I get back. I'll need it.