Apartment updates

This is interesting and useful to precisely nobody other than myself and Clara, but we feel accomplished, so I’m writing this here. In the last month we’ve finally: Had a plumber in to repair all the taps and bathroom fixtures. The assembly under the second bathroom’s taps were in such poor shape they had to replace the entire thing. The seals on all the taps were “as hard as concrete”. They also installed taps between the pipes and the wall, so the next plumber doesn’t need to turn off water to the whole flat when working in the bathroom. The taps are so smooth now. I’m also glad I didn’t attempt this work myself, on account of the muscular gentleman’s struggles to unscrew parts of the assembly. Had a gentleman come in from the local blinds company come in and measure all our windows, including the glass doors in the lounge. We chose this westerly facing unit because it looks out over the national park, but it does mean Australian summers get fun with heat and light. He quoted us a…