I can't post a photo of it but I can post a photo of the hole it used to live in (though, just to be pedantic, it wasn't a hole when it was still there)!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Things that are no more #2 - #10
After the theft of the greenhouse frame, the solar powered oxygenator for my pond, the (aforementioned) water lily, the garden fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake and a plant support, the thieving b*stards nicked my sea holly too!
I can't post a photo of it but I can post a photo of the hole it used to live in (though, just to be pedantic, it wasn't a hole when it was still there)!
I can't post a photo of it but I can post a photo of the hole it used to live in (though, just to be pedantic, it wasn't a hole when it was still there)!
the Zen of decorating
When we had the double glazing fitted in August on or return from Vienna, the surveyor revealed that our rather shoddy windows were rather more jerry built than we had at first thought. All the windows upstairs on the front of the house had been boxed in around the window recess with bits of plank and skirting board and would need restructuring once the windows were put in.
I decided that in the spirit of not increasing the amount of dust harbouring curves and nooks and crannies that architrave presents, that we would keep it simple and do what they do "on the continent" and have the recess plastered and papered rather than boxed in.
This has meant that over that last few weeks that the offending bare walls have had to be sized, re-papered and painted (I'm not complaining by the way, I actually enjoy decorating). I painted the walls without much ado and then cast my eye over the rather grubby yellow ceiling. I decided that I would paint the ceiling the same colour as the walls on the landing. This was mainly fuelled by the spirit of purging and clearing out which has afflicted us both since our return, as there was still some paint left in a big tin in the cupboard at the top of the stairs.
I was unsure how far the paint would go as there was only what looked like a teensy amount left, but I set to. I was amazed that by the time I had scraped the bottom of the tin for the last vestiges of pigment that only this small patch was left unpainted (though with no notion of scale in the picture below, that patch could as easily be feet or inches wide*). I couldn'r decide whether it was irritating to run out of paint at this point or gratifying that the small amount had gone so far in the first place.
Still an excuse for another trip to John Lewis isn't a bad thing is it?
*it was actually about 1sq yard
I decided that in the spirit of not increasing the amount of dust harbouring curves and nooks and crannies that architrave presents, that we would keep it simple and do what they do "on the continent" and have the recess plastered and papered rather than boxed in.
This has meant that over that last few weeks that the offending bare walls have had to be sized, re-papered and painted (I'm not complaining by the way, I actually enjoy decorating). I painted the walls without much ado and then cast my eye over the rather grubby yellow ceiling. I decided that I would paint the ceiling the same colour as the walls on the landing. This was mainly fuelled by the spirit of purging and clearing out which has afflicted us both since our return, as there was still some paint left in a big tin in the cupboard at the top of the stairs.
I was unsure how far the paint would go as there was only what looked like a teensy amount left, but I set to. I was amazed that by the time I had scraped the bottom of the tin for the last vestiges of pigment that only this small patch was left unpainted (though with no notion of scale in the picture below, that patch could as easily be feet or inches wide*). I couldn'r decide whether it was irritating to run out of paint at this point or gratifying that the small amount had gone so far in the first place.
Still an excuse for another trip to John Lewis isn't a bad thing is it?*it was actually about 1sq yard
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Things that are no more #1
My waterlily in my pond on the allotment, stolen (sob) earlier in the summer.
This frog now has no pad to call its own :(
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I just don't know what to do with myself
Ok, ok!
It's not dead, only resting!
I have been back since the beginning of August and I have only posted one lousy blog entry. I could say that nothing report worthy had happened, but that would be a big fib. I have actually been rather busy.
Since our return I have:
It's not dead, only resting!
I have been back since the beginning of August and I have only posted one lousy blog entry. I could say that nothing report worthy had happened, but that would be a big fib. I have actually been rather busy.
Since our return I have:
- supervised our double glazing installation
- visited Eigg
- been to Wales
- started a new job
- bought a new vacuum cleaner (not a hoover)
- had a burglary (on the allotment)
- planted some garlic and onions
- had another burglary (on the allotment)
- embraced the new council supplied big blue recycling bin
- took my first half day holiday from my new job to do some decorating at home
- grown a beard
- been to Manchester to help with some of my mum's decorating
- bought a beard trimmer
- bought some Purple Vienna Kohl Rabi seeds
- done some more decorating at home
- had a bonfire
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