Home Improvements

There I was thinking that for us, a home improvement was merely one of us making a decision about something. I was wrong. So, the new kitchen and bathroom project has begun. I think it's more like an art statement than a renovation, it's where a team of burly looking chaps take a PERFECTLY FINE kitchen and a PERFECTLY FINE bathroom, and replace it. They are probably practicing for a job somewhere else and using our building for their apprenticeship. Ah, perhaps that was unfair... but please, judge for yourselves.

Kitchen before improvements




Kitchen after improvements



Ok, so I suppose I should give them a chance to clear up the art and rearrange the bricks and mortar. It's going to take them 6 weeks to remove good quality 1960s wooden fittings, and replace them with 2006 MDF chipboard cupboards. The good news is that we don't own the place... :)

As a result of all this, Katya and I have had to make a kitchen out of one side of the lounge.


I'll take all the blame for the mess.

Thankfully, we can both get lunch at Kolding Hospital, and costs about £1 for a plate of really food. That's a step up from ASDA beans for me.

On a completely different note, it has to be said that I married the most amazing woman. A real sweetheart, couldn't have found better if I tried. She's fairly patient with a man who has been independant for so long... but the key is accepting one another, and not trying to change one another. (This will be where the hard work and patience comes in, but we will journey along the road and work hard at things)

She is presently on a course in the Kolding Hospital and has been performing hand surgery procedures to join severed nerves back together. Amazing stuff, really. It's a little easier to discuss than descriptions of how catheters are inserted. Ouch.

It was Katya's 26th birthday on Sunday! We had Katya's Mum, Larisa, Dasha, Maria, Kath and Jens over for Sushi, cheesecake and coffee. Kath commented that we seem to have filled the apartment fairly well. Let's hope we don't fill it with junk, for this makes moving again a nightmare!

















We are very happy with Roisin McNulty's wedding pictures! Roisin, you're a STAR. You're also a very talented photographer.

My brother and best man. Sweet.(Stephanie and Davina)












Aside from all the above stuff, I'm still continuing with the job search and becoming a little frustrated at the time it takes to register with the different recruitment sites. Most of them don't accept a CV in MS Word format so a custom online CV has to be completed for each different site and there is no set standard for it. Since the sites are in Danish and I have not yet begun the Danish Language school, it takes me just that little bit longer to complete the online CVs. Just a little bit longer...

Still, I can't complain about things. I discovered that my job searches were severely limited because I had my firefox browser language setting on English instead of Danish interface... all this from a person who has worked in IT for 6 years... one wonders... so off I go to the library now to continue with the job search.

Here is a little about where we live... in the meantime, adios!

http://www.visitkolding.dk