I was very pleased with the batch of beads that came out of the kiln yesterday. I made loads of the ones on the bottom left of my blog entry on the 10th. I haven't had chance to make them up into jewellery yet though.

Today we went back to our house in Cambridge; Countryside Properties have finally given us back the keys and told us that they've done all the work they're going to. So we have been getting the house ready to rent out. We'd like to sell it but don't think we'll get a buyer so we took the keys to a letting agency and signed an agreement with them. We will continue to rent where we are until the time comes that we can sell.

So yesterday we were putting up all the curtains that we took down before we moved out. They all had to be ironed as they had got very creased up in their boxes. I was ironing them and DH was hanging them - what with the visit to the Letting Agent as well, it took most of the day to do.

The builder still hasn't done all the work to the roof that they promised or the party wall. Our surveyor has to do a final inspection which is scheduled in the next few days, that will definitely say that the roof isn't up to standard and we will then sue the builder and/or insurer (Zurich) for the money and we will do it ourselves at a time that's convenient to us and our tenant (summer will be better for roofing works). They have had our house nine and a half months to put it right - we are fed up working to their (extended) timetables. Can you believe their Construction Director, Ray Claxton, told us that the work would only take a month? (And then revised that to four months) and it ended up taking over twice that long AND they still haven't done it all!!!

Right, enough of the moaning, on with making beads this morning and jewellery this afternoon! Much happier thoughts.