I\u2019ve had extensive feedback with my colour suggestions for the kitchen units and so far it\u2019s 2 votes for leave it natural and 1 for stain it green.\u00a0 If you add my vote (surely I\u2019m allowed a vote?) then that\u2019s 2-all.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to wait for Ilka to come over now and give me her expert opinion on it.\u00a0 I must admit that I\u2019ve always erred on the side of au-natural in the past, that\u2019s why I\u2019m tempted to try something different this time.\u00a0 ( Hence my choice of girlfriend haa haa).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, now the off-white tiles are firmly affixed to the tops the whole area looks a lot better and I might be happy to keep it natural.\u00a0 I\u2019ll live with it for a while and see how I feel, that\u2019s the normal way of doing things n\u2019est pas?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Ilka and I have now stopped communicating via mobile phone – not that we\u2019ve fallen out of course – but just that the cost was prohibitive.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve gone back to the old ways, like when dinosaurs roamed the earth and one had to get to a phone booth at an agreed time for the other to phone.\u00a0 It works very well actually, \u2018cos the local phone booth is only 5 minutes away from me and it gets me out of the house.\u00a0 And it only costs us a joint 2 cents a minute compared to the 80 cents it was costing before.\u00a0 So now we can chat about this and about that and about nothing \u2013 like lovers are meant<\/em> to do \u2013 and Orange can\u2019t touch us.\u00a0 It clearly wasn\u2019t the phone charges that bankrupted the dinosaurs!\u00a0\u00a0 Or maybe they were on another network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"