It’s strange buying a house – you discover that other people really are different. This house has an almost perfect kitchen, and reasonably good decoration all round. But half of the doors would not stay closed. Looking at them it turns out the plates in the door jamb were out of line. Looking closer you could see that there were grooves in the metal where the door had been closing. This obviously meant that this had been like this for probably 10-20 years. I cannot imagine leaving doors that don’t close for that long. Now all but two doors are fixed, and they will be done by this afternoon.
Then we come to the windows – all of them with good handles and locks. But opening them was a pain. First it was hard to push the button. Then once the button was pushed it was a pain trying to open the windows. WD40 and a little lubricant later and the problem goes away.
Interesting – must be the engineer in me… All of the windows and doors opening and closing was important to me.
In other news – I have now tried the drives to Scotland and Birmingham. Estimated time to Scotland 4 hours plus – actual time 3 and a half hours. Estimated time to Birmingham 2 hours, actual time 3 and a half hours. Easy trips north and tough trips south sound like the best idea. Although I am sure when the border controls are established it will be harder.