Day 20

I was woken up by people shouting in the street the usual wakeup call now.... Followed by a bus outside that could give Chitty bang bang a run for its money.... there was then allot of doors slamming and that was me awake.... eventually I fell asleep and then my phone went... it was the Joiner coming up....

So I got up and dressed the good news is that the window that was dangerous to health is now working and win tight and we are now hoping to get the rest of the windows working today and the dodgy drawers and screws in the work top fixed :)

This woman looks dangerous to health and is hanging from a window, I found this appropriate :)
In Glasgow we say "she looks like she could chow an apple through a letter box" lol


Pleased to report that all windows are now fixed!!! Kitchen work top is nice and safe and the drawers even work :) We have just spent 2 to 3 hours cleaning the windows as I don’t know if anyone’s ever cleaned sash windows but it’s not easy especially as the windows are around 70 years old and it’s been a while since they have been cleaned! The joiner showed us how to open them in the way... What you do is....



Step 1: Theres normally a bolt attached to a hinged piece of wood at the side of the window.. Unscrew it and open wooden support...



Step 2: Lift the window into position and hook onto the 2 hinged brackets at the side



Step 3: If the window has both ropes unhook the rope and then swing the window in...



Step 4: clean the window and do the reverse to close :)



Sounds easy doesn’t it? .... Well not when the windows won’t close.. The bedroom window was jammed open at one point and my partner an I where holding onto it for dear life and praying it would go back in ... after about a 5 minute struggle we managed to get it to go back ....The windows where coated with dirt and im so glad they no longer look awful :)

We then ran out of kitchen roll and had to go to the bank so decided to walk again to Rutherglen ....Weathers been great so it was a god walk... We then discovered the bank was closed and decided to walk to the Forge so walked all the way there and walked past and area of Glasgow where the new Commonwealth village is going to be ...there was a whole street of abandoned tenements it was creepy and a bit sad as they looked like they were in good condition....



We then went to Asda then B&Q then back to the flat to finish off the cleaning up...So it’s not been a very exiting day to be honest ... another day of being domestic....I have all the windows open in the living room now and am listening to the Karaoke.. It’s great to hear it better now lol...

At this point in time I can here like a wolf howling in the distance followed by a whale noise coming from kareoke




"Ah goat you hen"



"They say oor luv wulny piy the rent... we wulny fun oot untiiil wi growe ...."



"Hen ... ah got you hen"



Followed by another classic Cher song,,,,,



"Ah wiz born on a wagon own a travillin show ... Ma maw used tae dance fur the money they'd throw"



"Ma da wid dae wit ever he could"



"Preach a little gospil"



"schell a couple bottles eh doctor dood"



"Gypsies tramps and thieved ...we'd here it fay the peopl eh the toon"



"They’d caw us gypsies tramps and thieves"



"But every nigh aww the men wid come arroon and lay there money doon!"



Followed by cheering and a woman speaking over the mike .... Get yer hons aff me ya dirty bugger... then more of the song.... It was funny :)