Things tackled: Alison is painting the ceiling in the sitting room, she finishes today and then curtains, paintings and everything will be put back in its place. It is such a long room, the work had to be done because of the shower leaking water from above before Xmas. She has managed to knockout half a dozen bulbs in the overhead lights. Lucy has taken the whole situation quite calmly. Before Alison turned to decorating, she was a dog groomer, and Lucy has been under her hand. Ali, as she likes to be called, has done a great job, well apart from using a wet rag on the lights and was the head of that old Egyptian little statue already broken?
I quite enjoy the 'undressed' look of the room, though living in this house brings home to me it needs a family, not one solitary person chasing around its empty rooms.
Also phoned the Cats Protection Charity for a trap to catch the mother cat and kitten so that they can be neutered. This morning I had just come in from letting the bantams out, and the white head of the feral cat popped over the church wall looking for food, and then the little kitten came bounding up, so I put biscuits out. No news on the trap though.
Need to pluck up courage to go out on this grey and rainy day for shopping but perhaps not!
It must be nice having a lady decorator in the house as opposed to a man. Shame about the Egyptian statuette though. In the course of time, perhaps you will choose to move to a smaller property - a place where you can grow old more easily. Have you thought about that?
ReplyDeleteAli is young and very entrepreneurial, but she seems very efficient, even had a large generator, I think for removing dust. As for my future, the thought is too move to where my daughter is in Todmorden and rent a flat.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be glad to get back to normal and have everything ship-shape and Bristol fashion.
ReplyDeleteI hope that when the time comes, you will find something suitable to rent in Todmorden.
Getting the curtains up was a nightmare, and one pair is wrong, Jean the curtain maker in our village puts little gizmos on the curtains so that one overlaps the other...
DeleteIt is daunting thinking about moving - I did it too. But I don't regret it now that it is all behind me. Hope it is the same for you.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much stuff of Paul's in the house, I am still waiting for his sons to come down and see it all, sometimes it is overwhelming.
DeleteWow. A big move and new project.
ReplyDeleteWell I have enough furniture of my own to furnish a small flat and it would be logical to move nearer my daughter.
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