Day 2087 Egg fu yuk.

1st May 2023

Another hectic day ahead, first the weekly shopping, then the worktop templating in the afternoon and the weather was shite.

The expedition to Aldi was uneventful apart from two instances of people blocking my way to the refrigerator cupboards. First I wanted organic butter, my way was blocked, so I went to the next cabinet to get cheese, that was blocked as well, so I danced around until one freed up, that the total excitement on our shopping experience.

Then it was back home to wait for our designer Stacy and the templating man.

We had fun clearing all the worktop of Kelli’s cooking paraphernalia, the kitchen never looked so spacious. Having a shallower fridge and oven has made a big difference, it’s almost normal size.

Since we had decided to add another slim cabinet for oils and spices, I wanted to get started, so I set up the saw and cut up the plywood sheet in no time. Stacy had brought over the catalog of internal components to find one of a suitable size.

Then the templating man turned up with his bag of twenty-first century gizmos. I was expecting him to arrive with sheets of thin hardboard under his arm, like the one who did the templating for my kitchen in the cottage.

We went through some of the details, like how the wood top meets the corian. At time I feel like I’m speaking a foreign language trying to explain my ideas. “Ooh, we can’t do it that way” or “ we’ve never had to do that”.

Eventually we had an agreement, covering edge and corner radius, overhangs and upstand height. He then set about setting up his laser and started measuring. This took about an hour, and in the end he showed me the drawing on his iPad.

This he will send to the engineer back at the factory who will produce the proper drawing for me to approve. What slow process, the guy in England had the layout approved on site and the top was installed ten days later, I expect this to take four weeks.

Kelli was going crazy, she cooked breakfast on the table top oven she borrowed from her mother, the eggs came out with a texture of leather, I could have re-soled my shoes with them. She did get the slow cooker out and made a soup for dinner, just right for the cold and rainy day it had been.

I will try to wire up the oven and hob temporarily once I understand the wiring. I need to get a bit of advice before tackling it as there is four wires on the oven, and three on the plug.

The last thing I want to do is light up the oven like a Christmas tree.