14th May 2023
It was Mother’s Day over here, flowers and pollen in abundance. We went to Kelli’s mothers for dinner, joined by her brother Matt, his wife Brenda and Kelli’s son Cameron. Kelli had made two flower displays from our garden, they were a combination of wild flowers and weeds because we had no idea which was which, anyway they made a colourful display.
We finished the two matching dressers that had been built into someone’s wall. I made new tops and tidied up the bottoms, and they looked very decent. Kelli managed to sell them both without posting them on Marketplace.
I wanted to remove another part of the old kitchen worktop so I could remove the only dishwasher.
I ran my circular saw across to cut through the laminate, then did the rest with a hand saw, mainly to reduce the amount of dust.
Once that was done I moved on to removing the appliance. It had brackets that was screwed to the underside of the worktop that I had no idea how they were tightened. There was no space for a screwdriver, and even a flexi drive wouldn’t fit. I scratched my head for a while, and concluded the only possible way of unscrewing the fixings was to grip a pozi bit in a pair of mole grips. This took a while, but eventually I was able to remove them. Moving out the dishwasher was then simple. I stopped off the water supply, and disconnected the waste water hose, but the only thing left was the power. I couldn’t see where it was wired because it disappeared into the back of another base cabinet, and I didn’t want the mess around with those, who knows what Pandora’s box I would unlock.
My only option was to cut the wire. I knew that the electricians had used the circuit for wiring up the hob, so technically it was not live.
However not taking any chances, I put on a pair of rubber gloves, and gripping the cutters in my hands, I took a deep breath, “snip” it cut though in one slice, I was still alive.
Then it was just a case of getting it to the garage to be cleaned, but that’s for another day.
Another Lifetime to go 