Fred's kitchen notes

UPDATE!!!!

We finally got the kitchen replaced by the company that installed it the first time. Let;s say that whoever did the original job is not working there any longer. Anyway, we now have a new set of cupboards, a redone floor and all table-tops reconditioned. Plus the insurance reimbursed us for all broken items. And we have a new, bigger, better and fancier induction cooker!!! All for “free”.

Ok we lost a LOT of un-replaceable stuff, but  we got something back afterall.

Hurray!!!!!

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Hi again and happy new year to all of you.

We ended 2010 with a clogged sewage pipe which caused the cellar to become a nasty “mud bath”. We started 2011 with another catastrophe. It’s January the 7th, morning. The kids are still sleeping and I am rearranging the kitchen, before preparing their breakfast. I decide to store that bottle of wine in the bar shelf, so that all drinks (well, those few bottles I have) are consolidated onto the same place. As soon as I let the bottle touch the shelf, armageddon! The whole thing collapses and crashes to the floor. All 4 of them shelves. CRASH!!!! I ended up trying to hold one of them, while all glass was breaking onto me. I could hear everything crashing and breaking on the floor, and I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do. Just wait for the noise to finish. Hanne came immediately and she saw me, in the corner, holding a collapse shelf with a hand, a glass jar with another, smelling of booze because of a bottle of wine and one of whisky broke and soaked me and bleeding quite a lot from my legs, as several glass objects cut me.

We are still making a list of all the damage, since everything will be covered by the insurance we have. Still, a precious bottle of wine, a cask strength Whisky, a crystal wine decanter, plates, glasses, one of my Global knives, the induction stove, plenty of stuff. DISASTER. Took me the whole day to clean that mess. Especially the floor, that was a mix of wine, whisky, cocoa powder and broken glass. Sweet. Pictures show the mess.