Our new refrigerator has just been delivered. It will need about five hours to warm up (cool down, actually), but then our eighty-two days of being in clear and present danger of food poisoning are over and we will be able to store 384 litres of all things cold.

In related news from the opposite end of the temperature scale, gas was also installed this morning, so that we can now turn on the heat as well.

Next on the list are curtains that cover the full length of our impressive ceiling-to-floor window front (the old ones end at about knee-level), a bed, a home stereo, dust bins, and a dining table.