Owing to elder daughter falling off her perch in London, I have been somewhat distracted of late. She really was run over by a van - her right elbow anyway - last Friday whilst riding her bike through Camden. Thus a long operation to sort and and clean up the mashed arm and a stay on the NHS in University College Hospital discovering the joys of morphine. Anyway she's home now and being looked after by family and friends. On Monday the proper cast goes on once the swelling reduces. It'll probably be a while before she's flying on her laptop or on her bike.
Anyway, the painting schedule has been put back a bit. But R is doing wonderful woodwork-y things with newel posts and staircases and kitchen units. We now have an oven! - another IKEA Bargain Corner find, along with two sinks, two sets of taps and a whole load of kitchen doors. So we do move along.
May 28, 2008
May 15, 2008
If you are getting bored with this blog, you have my deepest sympathies. I am getting bored with the blog too. "Here's a room with plasterboard.... here it is with skim on top of the plasterboard..... and, ooh look, here it is with cream paint on top of the skim." Multiply by the number of rooms and the reader will be falling off his perch with boredom.
So you're not going to get more pictures of the inside till I have something more interesting to photograph. The short version of the news is that the plasterboarding is more or less done, and we have ordered 60 sheets too many so if anyone wants a bargain.. Lee the plasterer has sloped off to do someone else's house but is due back next week which will coincide with me having a few days off work to cover house and self in paint.
I ordered a plumbed-in sink so that I could wash brushes and rollers in a larger-than-caravan-size sink and this meant hiring a digger, and digging not only the trenches but also a manky great big soakaway (2.5 x 2.5 x 1m) into which we have slung all the half-bricks and lumps of concrete which have been lurking about in the corner of the garden since a year ago when we demolished the garage. So one or two interesting photos:
So you're not going to get more pictures of the inside till I have something more interesting to photograph. The short version of the news is that the plasterboarding is more or less done, and we have ordered 60 sheets too many so if anyone wants a bargain.. Lee the plasterer has sloped off to do someone else's house but is due back next week which will coincide with me having a few days off work to cover house and self in paint.
I ordered a plumbed-in sink so that I could wash brushes and rollers in a larger-than-caravan-size sink and this meant hiring a digger, and digging not only the trenches but also a manky great big soakaway (2.5 x 2.5 x 1m) into which we have slung all the half-bricks and lumps of concrete which have been lurking about in the corner of the garden since a year ago when we demolished the garage. So one or two interesting photos:
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