Yesterday we finally took some bits and bobs down to the charity shop, and after some gentle poking the night before I also went through my clothing and put some (quite a lot by my standards) in to be charity shop’d. The 3.5 bags of stuff was carried by us down to the store; the…

So for the past (N) months I’ve been occasionally beating myself up over the plumbing. The failure of the shower to drain properly has been annoying me and I’d wondered if I’d ever get it fixed. It seemed that every few months the problem would return, sometimes more frequently, and I couldn’t really work out…

So yesterday we vanquished many foes… The weeds were attacked, there’s still more but their army of green-seedy-evil is much weakened. The trellis was raised in defence, protecting the joyous garden from the pile-of-earth-currently being taken over (with some assistance) by wild strawberries. The unplanted were granted a home (two decorative grasses are now in…

It’s white! The blue door is white. And looks moderately respectable. Obviously it’ll need a bucketload of polishing, but it is the right colour (at least on the outside). I’ll throw a coat or two of spray on tomorrow on the other side and then we can go for fitting it, which is terribly exciting.…

I’ve been in an odd mood of late; I think it’s the spending-lots-of-time-alone (relatively speaking) doing lots of non-thought-requiring tasks. Sanding/painting are hardly higher level thought process jobs. Well, I guess at a higher quality standard that I’m aiming for they might be, but at my level of ‘get the paint on, polish it later’…

Well, high build primer deserves it’s name. Thinned down *loads* more, and sprayed over the shite first coat, and the doors looking shockingly respectable. I’m quite pleased…

So, Parcelforce delivered the door I bought from the Daf Owner’s Forum – well, bought is perhaps an excessive term. I paid for delivery. It’d been sat in a shed and the previous owner generously cleaned up the worst of the surface rust and gave it a bit of a blow-over with some primer before…

The HVLP system arrived while I was washing up. Less than 5 minutes later it started raining, a lot. Not appropriate weather conditions for spraying I fear. Gah. I am now trying to use the sofa to bend the skirting board.

So, I’m waiting for the HVLP sprayer/compressor to arrive. They alledge that they attempted delivery yesterday; no card, no knock, no doorbell ringing to back that suggestion up. Annoyed, I am. So I’m not able to go out again today; although there’s much less need to leave the house because after shopping yesterday we stopped…

So, the cold is being pushed into the corner, my immune system standing over it like some movie thug, preparing for it’s final dispatch. I can actually breathe properly, more or less, and today I’m getting through tissues at a somewhat reduced rate. That said, I can’t say as I’ve exactly been ‘swift’ to get…