Easter hols over and the Jerrams happily married off during a lovely day at East Riddlesden Hall, it's now time to turn our attention back to the kitchen. A bit over 2 weeks left to kitchen fitting week, it's time to work out the minor details like plastering, painting, tiling and how to maintain a usable cooker.

The lovely shiny new range style cooker is currently doing an excellent job as a shelf part way into the kitchen, but in all its swanky dual fuel ness will need a gas and electricity connection before it's much use for what we paid all that money for. And we're not sure how far we'll be able to move it once connected up, and hence whether the painting and tiling behind should really be done beforehand. Potential gas fitter scheduled for a chat on Thursday so hopefully all will be revealed.

Meanwhile I think I've found a hole that needs some concrete putting into it to give us a flat surface to lay the floor so I'm happy!

We've also completed our first ebay transaction thanks to Grandfather who undertook the collection and are now the proud owners if not yet the keepers of a double buggy. Philip's been acquiring another couple of teeth - mainly without much fuss - and more vocabulary as well as more determination about the way things should be done around here. Good job someone's organised. He's still a little star at nursery keeping everyone amused with his giggling.