Thursday! Pushed into a corner, I realized that I had to let DH have his expensive toy. I gave him permission to buy whatever TV he wanted. This set off a flurry of research on his part to find out which was the best, yada yada yada. After revisiting the base exchange, several electronics stores, etc, he finally settled on a 37 inch LG flatscreen that cost as much as my plane ticket home. We got it home, realized that we didn't have the cable to connect it to the signal booster, which meant that he made a mad dash out to the Asda to get the cable so we could enjoy the TV that night. Here, I have to admit, it's a pretty awesome TV. The picture is incredible - I'm mightily impressed. We did some walking around town, bought two bottles of inexpensive but great wine at Morrisons, and enjoyed the TV that night.
Friday - this was our general home improvement day. None of the bathrooms had mirrors or shelves or towel racks, and DH had been planning just to borrow a drill so that he could install the bathroom mirror he bought, door handles on the wardrobe, etc. Anyway, we kept buying the wrong lightbulbs for the lamps we bought at Ikea, so we went to the DIY store to get the right ones (it took us four tries!). While there, we went ahead and bought a drill that was on sale, so back to the house we went with our new purchase so that we could drill holes all over the place. We installed a clothesline retractor thing in the backyard, the wardrobe handles, the bathroom mirror, the master bath towel rack, and I am sure a couple of other things I'm not remembering. Finally, by the end of the day, I started to feel like we had gotten the house into a basic living condition. There are still lots of little things I'd like to do: hang different curtains, have some plants in the back garden, install hand towel racks in the other two bathrooms, etc. But all in due time.
Saturday we strolled into town and had lunch in the Valley Gardens. We tried to enjoy what we expected to be our last day together, as I was hoping to fly home on Sunday. We had some decent sandwiches and some ice cream, people-watched a lot, and just enjoyed the nice weather.
Sunday - well, not too much great to say about Sunday. We spent the entire morning at the airport, hoping that I would get onto the flight home. Needless to say I didn't, so we headed back to Harrogate, hit an internet cafe and bought me a one-way ticket home (flying standby was not going to work), and just tried to get over the fact that we were both tired and cranky from waking up too early, and after 7 weeks separation, had spent a week together 24/7 and were getting a little edgy.
Monday DH went back to work and I enjoyed a quiet day on my own, walking around town and such. Not too much exciting happened, except we did hit our second pub quiz night together (we had gone the previous Monday as well).
Tuesday I woke up too damn early and flew home.
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