Thursday 2nd August. So today I worked on the least favourite of rooms and jobs - the bathroom. It really had been neglected for some time, so was well overdue for a deep clean. Because of my ongoing pain issues I can only do a little at a time so have to pace myself. It will be a two day job. Today I cleaned the toilet, window sills, sink and top of drawers. Tomorrow I will tackle the bath and inside the actual drawer unit and hopefully finish with the walls and floor.
I also finished the end bedroom and dusted and polished a couple of cabinets in the hallway - gosh the dust from decorating the windows has certainly spread round the house!
The weather is warming up again and I did a little bit outside before it got too warm, dead heading the roses and cleaning out some of the old leaves that were in the wildlife pond. It seems the newts and frogs aren't around at the moment, so I took advantage of their absence.
The last two days I have got back into my clarinet practice, having not done any for quite some time, partly due to the very hot spell we had been having and well also due to the pain...sigh...
Friday 3rd August. Hot again, over 30 degrees. This weather we are having really is quite incredible. I didn't do much today around the house, a bit of an upset disturbed my fragile emotional equilibrium.
Little Percy had to go to the vet to have his yearly vaccination - I do sometimes wonder whether these are absolutely necessary and how much they contributed to his immune disorder that destroyed the retinas in his eyes and caused him to go blind. He does however do a lot sniffing, licking and hunting of various gross items in the garden, so I guess best to protect him against the nasty bugs that might be lurking as a result of rat and mouse droppings.
In the afternoon I have come up to stay with my son and daughter in law again for the weekend. Just gives me a bit of time away from the house and other things.
Saturday 4th August: Today we went to a Vintage/Antique Emporium. It was okay but nothing really grabbed us and a lot of stuff seemed to be rather overpriced. Afterwards we went to Bishop Stortford and did some of the charity shops. DS and his wife bought a lovely second hand lounge suite. It gets delivered on Wednesday, so once it is in situ I will take some photos of it. It is really pretty and I wouldn't have minded it myself! I bought some more books, 50 p each, three of which were brand new. I am building up a collection of the Michael Morpurgo books, so was pleased to get these three.
The afternoon was spent in the garden and I helped the Sailor do some weeding so he could plant out some more potatoes. We also dug some up for dinner.
I love the way the light reflected through these pretty red leaves.
Watching the starlings provided much amusement.
I guess tomorrow I will have to return home and continue with my cleaning up after the decorating - there is still the lounge to tackle, and that was very dusty when I left on Friday - the decorator having only just finished the windows on Thursday afternoon. Hopefully the paint will have started to harden properly. As they are metal window frames, we are leaving the windows open so that the pain hardens as much as possible before closing them. Thank goodness for the good weather! Hopefully I will have some after photos to show soon.
What a joy to visit today and see your bird visitors. I can never get the camera quick enough before they've gone.
ReplyDeleteThat can often be the problem. I have often missed some of the more elusive visitors to the garden.
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