SPRING CLEANING 11

Spring is almost over. It is already the last month. Not much happened in the first half, housewise, as I was busy looking after my father who was alternating between suffering from infections and taking excursions. I did buy an exercise mat...

 

... for use in the kitchen do to Yoga while baking, though. Dad paid for two panels of fence to be replaced in the outside alleyway/lean-to/side-piece and I tidied up my 'bedroom bar'.

 

I also used the newly surfaced kitchen table to create a few yummy meals, such as a vegan rocky road.

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The old bulky chunky table outside, the new slimline oak piece within, left the kitchen with a lot of space! Sigh, yes, the floor needs cleaning again, doesn't it? As does the carpet...

 

I purchased a waterproof tablecloth to cover the table top. It looks better than a pair of black garbage sacks - and is much easier to wipe clean. However, I am not entirely satisfied by the color or design. Both are nice - except, they do not fit in with the kitchen decor.

However, they are much easier to use!

 

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Yes, the table was soon in use. I covered it with black garbage sacks so as not to spoil it until I can find and purchase a waterproof table runner - something like a small yoga mat. The table area now looks..... ok. Only ok? Yes... I object to having a wall design that is badly blu-tacked into position forcing me to know which foods contain which vitamins and elements, and my coriander plant is almost dead.

I poured a glass of wine before cleaning the cutlery and placing it into the 2 drawers. Dad's old filthy cutlery holder did not fit - (YES!) - so I had to use plastic trays. On the left you can see my sushi mat, chop sticks, spoon, kitchen knife and peeler. The empty white tray was filled with a nut cracker, cork stopper and tin opener soon afterward. The righthand drawer is for Dad's dining cutlery.

Now, what became of the old table, you ask? Well, shall we check in the garden? As soon as my son arrived home from his grocery expedition, he had the table in his arms asking where it had to go - bless him for his premature enthusiasm. I explained what needed doing and we did it - almost. I just have to mallet-in the table a bit firmer in a day or two when it has settled and get it to the right height for Dad to use his garden tubs from a wheelchair...

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It was a fairly simple job once the rounds had been loaded onto the screw. I just had to screw the 8 loaded screws into the 8 holes after inserting the leg lumps into the table top piece. This blurry photo is how my hand and wrist had to bend to use the little metal-screw thingy. 

...& this is how one side looked when done! Tables do look funny when shot upside down, don't they?

It was soon put into its new home. The old grubby thing removed to the sink-side for a while - awaiting my son. The new table looked so slim, posh, fancy, wooden, clean, NEW!

It was soon laden with my granite chopping board and mortar/pestle, nuts for the squirrel and a bottle of wine for me to tuck into.