Z's kitchen countdown 9 - a day on the tiles

 Saturday was the blog party, where the guests were as lovely as ever and, impressively, those who stayed overnight succeeded in drinking me, if not under the table, upstairs for an early night.  Sarah stayed for a couple more nights and I took her to the railway station this morning.  Since then, I've been looking up and printing photos of the things I want for the kitchen tiles.  I don't think I put up an example, because I hadn't downloaded it on to the computer, but I have now.

I mislaid the tile yesterday - that is, I hadn't seen it for several days and thought that I knew where it was, but I was wrong.  As happens in these cases, I searched - everyone searched - for hours and then I just found it, where it had slipped behind a cushion.

Here is the sample tile that Mark made for me.  I should have cropped it.  

You can't really see from these two examples, but the ones they'd got on their wall are a truer blue - the one of the cottage is a grey/green/blue, which goes better with the door fronts on the kitchen units.

I've had a lot of fun thinking about the images I'd like him to paint and have made a list to go with the photos.  I've phoned and arranged to go over tomorrow morning.  Then on Wednesday, I'm off on my delayed trip to Scotland.  I'm not leaving Wink home alone as friends are coming to stay - it's a pity I'll miss them, as I'll leave shortly before they arrive, but she'll have company and one of the three will be staying in my house, as Wink only has one spare bedroom.

I will need curtains for the (up to now) study, but I think I now have everything I had to choose for the kitchen.  Sir Bruin and Indigo kindly took the emptied chest freezer outside so, when I buy my new fridge, I can get that taken away.  It's still in working order, but it's very old and I couldn't even give it away. in case it conked out shortly afterwards - I'm not sure, but I think it's the one we brought from our last house, in 1986, in which case it's nearly 50 years old.  And now I feel a bit disloyal, scrapping it.  

Today is Zerlina's 17th birthday.  Tomorrow is her parents' 20th wedding anniversary and the day after that is Gus's 14th birthday.  Today, Eloise cat is 11 years old.  Also this week is the 11th anniversary of Russell's death, so it's just as well that I won't be here.  I remember bad anniversaries, but I don't mark them.