Sharing is Caring

I meet Miranda from Interior Effects at 8:30. We go through the house and she picks up everything I need connected to doors. No effort for her but some things I still haven't got. Esp sizes of latches. I go to school to have breakfast and organise some bits and bobs. I call Alexandra. Nic is home again and Lionel is in respite care. Their world has changed in the short term.  It happens just like that.

Early afternoon I've got a kitchen appointment with Nicki and Murray Hewitt. Not the Murray Hewitt from Flight of the Conchords fame, "I've told you. When you are in a band, you don't get with your bandmate's girlfriend. Past or present." But the builder and joiner who is putting my kitchen together. He knows his stuff and has a slight sense of humour. Keeps it real when you're spending a fortune on installing the most important room of the home. So much detail. We finish by looking at cupboard and drawer handles. I'm sure our forebears had it a lot easier. I'm nearly at decision fatigue. On the way I've chosen a front door handle. Yay.

Back at the house, Peter the plaster art expert has arrived to size up the plaster arch between the entry and the hallway. It's a bit technical and Cam gets advice on prepping the space so Peter can attach the arch. It's all beyond me, I just direct personnel. Like I've done this all my life. It's beginning to feel like it. 

At the dinner table Kahu shares his purchase of the day. We love them.

                                                      William Morris, The Brook wall paper