catch up

Hi

So...its been ages.  What have I been doing? I have no idea!

The plastering was done in the annex bathroom and bedroom...so I have been painting in the bathroom - haven't started on the bedroom yet - and have no idea what colour to do it!  The bathroom however, I painted.  Three coats - one white then 2 blue.  I really liked it until ray (plasterer) saw it, and I said do you like the colour - and he just said no.  lol.  Like his honesty - but this morning the guys turned up to do the flooring - they haven't quite started laying it yet - but as soon as I saw the boxes outside the room  I thought - yeah that colour (on the walls) isn't going to work!  I think it is going to look too bright - but I'll see when the floor is in.  If it is wrong at least I can change it.

After Karl had finished the plastering in the bathroom - I noticed (not that it was hard to see!!) that behind the radiator there was an ugly piece of plasterboard just stuck in at the side!! I had no idea how to conceal it.  The problem was that - because the walls had plasterboard put on and then plastered - the wall stuck out more than the window sill.  I called Ray (Karls boss) and said I needed him to look at something Karl had left....I needed to know what on earth I could do to cover it!  He came and looked at it, and said - you just need to build a new window sill to go over the existing one - with a lip which will cover the gap between sill and radiator (and mess behind it)....oh is that all!!!  So...as Ray had left Connor behind and left me some wood - me  and Connor set to making a new one!  We had fun figuring it out...it was an odd shape so we had to get that right 1st....but we managed it well....then we fit it and cut out another piece of wood for the lip and fitted that...filled over the embedded screws and gave it a lick of paint and it looks awesome!  I'll put pics up when the bathroom is finished.

I finished the tiles in the back porch!!!  I've put that on this blog as a separate post - under house renovations!  So - I won't talk about it here - other than to say - it was a pain in the butt!!! But it is done! yay!

I also pulled all the carpet up in the games room - don't know if I have already mentioned that? But it has good boards under there - so I'll be sanding and sorting them out in the (hopefully) near future!  Unfortunately I have to make the annex stuff priority before I can start on that!

So...other than the work on the house...I have been eating lots and not running...so I'm putting weight on again! I think it is because when I work on the house all day I have no energy left to exercise or cook - so we get take-out! but it has to change!! 

We've had a few good pool nights and Helen and Paul have been around - which is always fun but nothing else of note to talk about....