Out with the old and stripping down again......

The dear SO tore out the old kitchen and the seating area, which must have been in situ from the very beginning, and we smelt the damp and rotting timbers as the seat gave up its hold on the flat.  It was actually a rather nice bench-with-back-type seat and quite cosy but, it had to go, it was just a little old fashioned for the look we're giving the flat.

All Shaker white cupboards and lovely wooden worktops; white paint work throughout, and nice pale carpets.

Stripping the one wall of paper was fun too, until I realised too much had been attempted yesterday, and I was so very glad when two kindly fairy friends visited and stayed to help with the scraping.  It's the getting up and down from the floor to the step-ladder, to the wall tops, soaking and rubbing down, the scraping again to remove all those stubborn little pieces of paper, steadfastly refusing to come away from the plaster.

It's almost done but tomorrow is taken up with many other things so no renovating tomorrow.  I'm off to church and taking a home made cake for the flower festival tea in the afternoon; and I made a cake for home tea too, and a favourite recipe for coffee and walnut sponge cake....yippee!!

Alice continues to improve and we'll be at the vets surgery early on Monday morning for the stitches to be removed, and that's a double-yippee.  We'll soon be out for our walks again for both Alice and Poppy and me, thank goodness.

It's been another beautiful day too, and I've even been gardening on two days this week and hopefully more tomorrow.  More bedding plants for free with a voucher from my favourite newspaper, four pots of herbs to find places for and I must stain my lovely Versailles tub while the weather is good.

So I think tomorrow will be very pleasant and, oooh, we have a small family gathering for dinner tomorrow evening. 

And did you see the third episode of Parade's End on Friday night - it was brilliant!  I've ordered the book from Amazon and can't wait to begin reading it, although I do have my book club choice to read before the 17th September, so I think it's going to be a busy week.

Ah well, that's life!

Daisy

ps I've had two awfully nice letters in response to my request for information on my nursing family members, wshich is great, so I must get back to my correspondence on Monday.  Byee for now.