What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

Cream crackered already and it’s only 8.15! Just fitted the complete contents of three bedrooms into one but the hardest job bar none was moving the mattress. It’s got over 3,500 springs in it and it weighs a ton. I wasn’t here when it was originally delivered but feck knows how two delivery drivers got that up the stairs and into our bedroom. It took all our strength just to stand the bàstard up on its side and then I looped a tow rope through one of the side handles and dragged it a bit at a time into the next bedroom with Mrs Mottie just keeping it upright. Once on the landing it tipped and trapped her against the bannisters. Anyway, all done now, I’ve just got to take up the old carpet and it’s ready for the carpet fitters. Our back bedroom looks like Steptoes front room - all it needs is a skeleton and a stuffed bear!

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Carpet fitters been and gone, now the long process of fitting everything back up in the bedrooms begins. Going to leave the heavy b'stard mattress for the spare room and put the spare bedroom mattress on our bed. The bed frame is dated 2013 so the mattress will be the same age. We'll see how we get on with that spare mattress, if no good we'll think about getting another. Wouldn’t mind one of those two different sided mattresses. I think I’ll just worry about the main bedroom today and then I’ve got to go out to the tip and call in the barbers on the way back for a 'senior cut' . Going to have to get my mate round with his circular saw or plane or whatever is needed as we had to take all the doors off and they all need about 8-10mm taking off the bottom.