Sitting in our
garden. It’s stunning out here. In fact, I am at my garden table in the shade
as I was sitting in the sun and now, I’m boiling. Hub is in his basket swing as
today he has the day off work. He is in charge of the dogs. Waggs is tied up
near him and LF does as he is told for his Dad so is laying still next to him. They
have a large dish of water near them. Just in case hubs thirsty. Haha. No way
our LF will drink it as it has no milk in it.
I would love it if I could say I can hear the beautiful birds
singing and my water feature flowing as well as the gentle tree branches
fanning their blossoms, but no, I have a city house and I hear one crow crowing
traffic beeping and groaning and the garden bin lorry screeching. But still the
air smells lovely.
Seems like everyone is going on holidays this month. At least
most of Hubs colleagues are. So many of his colleagues are into diving holidays
or walking or some kind of activity.
Last night Hub went around to check if I had done the work
right. He removed the curtains and it was up to me to do the rest.
Oops
OK, I forgot the awful plaque that has been on the door since
the house was bought. From the previous owners. It’s like a brass flat sheet. Why?
Not sure. Hub says it must have been for decoration. Right. It’s hideous. So,
Hub got the screwdriver set out, with only two in now as too many people going
through our garage over the years. Neither screwdriver we have left fit, so,
down to the good old kitchen knife. Always works. If in doubt
Head to the kitchen drawer. That is my motto.
Then I heard him say, Fiona, what about this hanger over the
door?
Oops, I forgot that too. Then he suggested we should move
the little bits of furniture from the landing. Em, forgot about that love… as
for the candle sticks that are large free standing shabby chic about hip level,
em, well, didn’t see them. I’m blind you know? Hahaha, well, Okay, so is he.
Thing is, if I had my thinking head on, I would have put everything in one
room. Hub? Oh, no, every one of our rooms upstairs is a right mess now. My Sons
room is next to be done it needs gutting. If this man does a good job, then I will
ask if he can do this in a few weeks. What a mess in there. And more so now Hub has
been to work. I mean, why spread things about? Surely you pick the messy room,
and put everything in there? Oh, no, Hub likes to share….
Our painter started his work today. Even though it’s a bank
holiday weekend here, he is working, so I hope he will do a better job than our
last disastrous decorator did.
Well going back to last night. I did move everything from
our Sons bathroom. And it’s there where the guy is doing first. I’m getting it
painted the same colour as the guest room. Duck egg. It’s not the same paint,
as this is proper bathroom paint, so I hope it will look nice. There are only
half walls to do the rest are large white tiles with a chrome strip at the top.
We have a white bathroom suite with a jet bath we got for our son as it has all
the lights in supposedly to calm well mood lights. We have dark grey laminate
flooring with some shiny chrome stripes running through and I have white towels
for in there. All of the accessories are chrome too. We have chrome spot lights
in the ceiling. In my mind it is lovely, well will be when our guy is done
painting. I hope anyway. He came recommended so fingers crossed. He is also
doing all the work over again what we paid a fortune for last year but that
painter was not a good person. We thought we could trust him, because he is a
very close friends’ brother in law, but sadly he isn’t our, very close friend…
Oh, it’s such a lovely day. I wish we could go
to the beach. I definitely want one day to live near the sea. It’s my dream. Sadly,
though it will take a lotto win. The only good thing about living here with the
noisy traffic, is it’s blocking out Hubs cricket on the radio. Hahaha. Cricket isn’t
as bad as his football, gosh I hate that, unless it’s the world cup.
Do I like any sports? Well I used to run many moons ago. I loved
watching running and ice skating. I love tennis. If I could see I would play
tennis for sure. Mind you, they would need a reinforced Fifi proof tennis court.
I had some water melon for breakfast with some delicious
salt and pepper bread with my amazing cracked black pepper cheese. It was divine.
Not having lunch and Hub just wants a light dinner tonight, so salad with mint
beans and chili noodles and he can have crab with that.
I was talking on line last night when I should have been
emptying upstairs to decorate, hahaha, about milk. As you do….
You don’t?
Oh!
Anyway, the lady on her own drinks 24 pints per week. Oh, my
goodness…. well her bones will be good. She has a cat but I think she needs a
cow!
Well I am off to make our decorator a cuppa. A brilliant
poet I know called Matthew, asked me the other week what was a cuppa?
Anything in a cup normally tea. Let’s hope I don’t make
contact with the white gloss. Goodness knows what we are going to do with the dogs
tonight as he is doing all the way down the stairs too….
Later gaters
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