Our life in the refugee camp - take two
Aug. 14th, 2021 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartToday, they came to remove our Venetian blinds so that the insulation work can be continued around the windows, too. Never mind that it's frigging hot again, and we get sunshine from morning to evening; either reflected (in the morning) or direct (in the afternoon and early evening). The show must go.
We had to do something against being baked alive, especially since we must count on several weeks before the blinds can be put back on. So my friend Evie came over in the morning and we taped brown package paper on all the windows - like in a film from WWII. But it's a good thing that we did, because barely were we done, the guys who removed the blinds came already (at 2pm - that is two hours earlier than announced).
It was a dusty, dirty event; the blinds are now stored in the corridor, next to the wall, and we all hope and pray that the blind lady from the flat opposite ours won't stumble and break something. More so as not only our blinds are stored there, but those of our neighbour and the lady opposite her, too. They have to stay there because no-one has the actual space to store them anywhere else; since the balconies are getting insulated and painted, too. At least we hope.
And since the size of the window holes will change due to the insulation, the blinds will have to be professionally re-sized before being put back on. For which we'll have to pay extra. And clean the things ourselves or else they won't be accepted for re-sizing.
If I'm mad? Moi? Why should I? These are only the third or fourth unexpected expenses/annoyances/extra tasks within one week!
We had to do something against being baked alive, especially since we must count on several weeks before the blinds can be put back on. So my friend Evie came over in the morning and we taped brown package paper on all the windows - like in a film from WWII. But it's a good thing that we did, because barely were we done, the guys who removed the blinds came already (at 2pm - that is two hours earlier than announced).
It was a dusty, dirty event; the blinds are now stored in the corridor, next to the wall, and we all hope and pray that the blind lady from the flat opposite ours won't stumble and break something. More so as not only our blinds are stored there, but those of our neighbour and the lady opposite her, too. They have to stay there because no-one has the actual space to store them anywhere else; since the balconies are getting insulated and painted, too. At least we hope.
And since the size of the window holes will change due to the insulation, the blinds will have to be professionally re-sized before being put back on. For which we'll have to pay extra. And clean the things ourselves or else they won't be accepted for re-sizing.
If I'm mad? Moi? Why should I? These are only the third or fourth unexpected expenses/annoyances/extra tasks within one week!
