expected delivery

Damn the weather was grim last night. So much rain and wind, made more exciting by the house having quite a few skylights so you get the full impact of the rain noise. A bit like camping but much warmer and cosier and no fear of leaks or of getting soaked going to the loo.

We stayed in (obviously, its not like we now go clubbing on a friday night), and watched the LOOOOONG film the Island, which wasn't too bad to be honest. Entertaining but way too long and took the suspension of disbelief a little too far in some of the chase scenes. The living room was nice and cosy and warm and we were only missing one thing...... a fireplace. Oh to have a lovely woodburner on a night like last night....

Ours is on order but there's an understandable backlog. Assuming it does arrive in the next few weeks we have it booked in to be installed (along with some heavy duty fireplace reconstruction) early December. Given the other delivery that we have expected in the next few weeks this is a logical delay, as I had feared me staving off contractions whilst the builders installed the thing in the living room at the same time. But then again I WANT MY WOODBURNER NOW!

Is it wrong that I am more impatient about the woodburner than the arrival of my first born? Does that make me a bad mother already. Oh no, this doesn't bode well does it :-(