The Summer 'Fun' Files (Part 4 - Days 8 & 9)

Friday

We awoke to grey skies that soon turned to drizzle. I gave a silent cheer and I'm sure that Chantal did too, as it meant we could not do any painting or sanding for a while!

So what did we do? We had a relaxing read of the paper before going to see an early morning showing of 'The Golden Compass'. Oh! We then went to a furniture store, lost our senses and ordered a new bedroom suite. Not that there is anything wrong with our current pine one. It's just that we wanted to upgrade to a rimu (a hard wood) one. It now means that, in three months time when the suite arrives, guests will be staying in a room full of good pine funiture!

Unfortunately, the drizzle stopped so by mid-afternoon we felt obliged to do some painting. We managed to apply the first coat of aubergine to the guttering and window frames of the blind side of the house.

Saturday

I originally planned to take today fairly easy as I am doing a mini-triathlon tomorrow morning. However, as it rained yesterday, I felt that I should do some work on the house. Damn! If only I had said that I was not going to play cricket this week!

We made good progress today and put the second top coat on the weatherboards and windows of the blind side. Just the guttering and window frames to go on that side! We also scrubbed the moss and mould killer on the driveway side of the house.

As an estimate, I reckon we have done 1/4 of the job. I will be happy if we have the job 2/3 done by the end of next weekend. The rest will then have to be done on weekends and evenings!