Property Renovation

It's getting much better - you know, the painting and today, well, I was even managing to create quite a good impression of painting with a gloss paint, which is amazing, for this stuff drips you know.  So quite some energy had to be expended on masking tape, and sanding things down, cutting strips of the carpets to get to the skirting boards, and lots of the sugar soap solution.

Thank goodness, at the weekend's car boot sale, we both bought bags of a cotton knitted material work glove, and they are absolutely brilliant.  I'd not been able to find any earlier when buying paint and brushes etc. and now we have two bags, which is wonderful.  Are you like me, well, not mad, I don't mean that, but working without gloves, it's just awful, don't you find?  And those thin disposable and throw-way gloves, ghastly!!

Quite apart from that, they are usually too big, so they don't fit, and you can't wipe the paint off with them, so you're using copious amounts of kitchen clothes, or moist hand wipes, which are really rather too costly to use often; and the plastic gloves don't absorb the paint at all, so everything becomes paint-splattered, even yourself.  That's if you are like me, hey??

My training chef used to tell us to "work clean" and he was absolutely right, because if you don't, after your shift is over, you have another job of work, clearing up after yourself!  well, the same applies to decorating; you simply have to clean up as you paint which means every little splodge and splash and trailed paint across the door or floor or carpet.  And even if you're going to change the carpet once the painting is done, you still have to be careful about all the drips because you, or rather me, must be wasting quite a great deal of paint during the course of a big job?   And paint is expensive, don't you agree?

The dear SO was having fun with the plumbing today, and removing the kitchen sink and draining board, can you just imagine the pools of water spreading over the floor and the mess?

We left Alice at home today because she hasn't been terribly good at being a paintbrush and she's been getting so much paint on her fur, which actually bothers us, if not her.

My book club meeting was good and so was this week's book content, Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder, which we shall discusss again next week.  And then another, and another...
I think it's leading up to a great deal of reading, and mostly novels, which are not always my cup of tea, so I shall have to see how it all goes.

And talking of how things go, I think it's time for me to go...

Goodnight,

Daisy