My father's new table & bed -3

With the table set up, it came down to the bed. This arrived a day or two later. For once, I neither had to use the housekeping money nor my brain and hands to buy or assemble the item. It was purchased from a shop with workmen to deliver and erect.

The old bed had been my father's sleeping place for more than 60 years - having shared it with my mother throughout their entire married life together at this house. So to have a new bed was an adventure for my father - but once his sentimentality had been overrided by hospital advice, accepting mother would not be sharing it with him any more anyway, and that a bed was just furniture, he accepted having a new one.

On the morning of the arrival of the new bed, I took the old one to bits - recollecting how just over a year earlier I had done much the same, and carried it downstairs from the upper bedroom to former lounge for my father with my son's help.

 

The new bed arrived on time, was erected, and has been used by my father since. Alas, we had to politely shoo our visitor into the kitchen while it was assembled.....

My father's new table & bed-2

The instructions were simple - if the diagram was complex and miniscule. I soon had the three leg chunks together and the two top poles inserted in the table itself.

 

All that remained for me to do was insert the steel poles into the black sockets and screw in a pair of handles in order to produce a table.

 

This allowed the former chairside table to hold the bedside essentials -

 

- while the new table held the daytime/nighttime extra supplies.

My father's new table & bed -1

During my father's recent hospitalization, he was advised to purchase a new bed - one that was higher and with a firmer mattress. After circa 60 years of using his former bed, he agreed to dispose of the double dark-wood bed that he had shared throughout his entire married life with my mother - in order to purchase a brand new single bed, that was higher and with a firmer mattress. He wrote me a check after I had researched online, and taking the money from my bank account, I set off to buy his new bed. DONE!

Additionally, on return he renewed his desire for a hospital-style table that could be wheeled about to attend to his needs whether in his recliner or bed. Due to hassles with a specific bank, he had to get someone else to purchase the table and write them a check - the stupid bank had blocked his debit card as he was unable to talk to the idiots at the fraud section on the telephone in person due to being hospitalized/unable to pass the banks security checks - and the bank - of which I am departing as soon as my next statement processes and I can therefore apply elsewhere - would not talk to me on his behalf as all other dept and institutions will.

Suffice to say, my father has recently acquired a new table and bed at inconvenience to himself and others. The table arrived first - in 'to-be-assembled' pieces.

 

This was to replace the former wooden bedside cabinet - 

 

- and chairside table, originally created from a cheese carton lid by my father's father.

 

I got to work...

The toilet floor - finally! 2

Once I had lain on end of lino in place, I unrolled it up to the obstruction - the toilet. I then had to mark and cut a single slit in the rest of the lino, so that it would go around the toilet base.

Once this first cut had been made, I could snip across to the desired hole and back to encompass the toilet podium. Cutting less at the very back, I was happy that the single cut almost joined properly....

I next had to roll the lino up again and add some glue - then press it into place.

My cutting might not be perfect - but it sure looked smarter than grotty carpets! I left it for an hour or two, and then reassembled the apparatus -

The job was more or less completed - except....
Well, the old toilet brush looked just as gross as the carpet had, so I invested in a new one! Likewise, the old toilet mat was a tad on the yukky side - so I got another of those too. Here is the completed new toilet floor - with useful and very clean accessories installed!

The toilet floor - finally! 1

It has been a long time since I posted in this blog - not due to laziness of writing, but lack of time and finances to get anything done. My Father was in hospital for close to six weeks recently, and my housekeeping finances mostly went on bus fare to visit him for the first 3 weeks. However, it also gave me the opportunity to get the linoleum laid in the loo. As a recap as to why this needed to be done - this WAS the toilet.








As you can see, a dirty blue mat topped pices of dirty brown carpet - and under them, was a layer of dusty old newspaper.


I got to work with laying out the tools that I expected I would need and then began....

Removing the grotty carpets, I decided to toss them out. There was very little use for them as anything but trash in their condition. Likewise, the newspaper was not old enough to be of value as an antique so that got tossed into a black garbage sack as well. I then vaccumed and began to lay the pre-cut a few weeks ago lino.