I’ve spent a nice afternoon in the garden, painting and tidying up.
In the three years of the bar, with a couple of years beforehand at the Schooner, I’d not spent much time in what is actually a great little garden.
The next job, delayed from a time when I had a proper job, will be to fit a stove in the old shed at the top of the garden.
At the rate I’m going, I should get round to that next year.
After failing to take into account the drying time for the new cement screed, the first couple of coats of paint on the shed walls took ages to dry due to the dampness in the air.
It’s looking better after the third coat, but there’s still a lot of work to do before the shed can be used for anything.
I resumed work on the shed today, after I finished the internal render a couple of weeks ago.
The rendering I started around two and a half years ago.
Which followed the wall rebuilding in 2018-19.
Next week (I can only manage a day a week at most) I need to level the floor, before I can finish painting.
When I had a proper job, even though I worked long hours, I used to enjoy an hour or two just sitting in the garden on a summer evening.
So it was lovely to get away tonight before closing time. Yes, we do live in a town, but we also have the cutest little garden.
An additional bonus too; time to enjoy a nutritious meal.
Well, the holiday’s over and it’s time to focus on house stuff again.
One way to raise the value of our home, we thought, would be to install a swimming pool. We’d be the only house on Sheriff Hill to have one.
It’s currently filling up nicely, aided by heavy rain.
I haven’t felt very well the past couple of days. I mislaid an inhaler the other day, so I had to resort to an almost dead device.
Which didn’t work very well, leaving me struggling a little.
But, in my local, I was able to acquire a new inhaler. OK, so it’s of the stubby variety, but it worked straight away.
And, for the first time in a couple of days, I can breath normally again.
Relaxed now.
I kindof wish I’d put this on the front of the house, rather than the shed.
The man-cave now has a floor once more.
Well, that’s the rendering finished.
If the weather’s OK next weekend, I should be able to get a screed down on the floor.
I’m quite excited about my latest purchase.
It should arrive in the next week or two. While I’d love to substitute it for the existing street sign on the front of the house, I’ve resigned myself to its location in the garden.