11-04-2024, 07:15 AM
morning ladies 
The storm is here, it was bucketing down and windy as heck. So glad the tree is down but eying up the second tree.
Frilly cyclamen are so pretty, I saw them as well at Mitre 10 the other day. Three of the little cyclamen I bought in a six pack last season are flowering in the garden, I think I've lost the others. But a little bit of red, white and pink poking through the mulch adds a bit of cheer to a shaded garden.
The plumber is supposed to be coming this morning now to re-measure where the new gutters are going. We'll see if this weather stops him.
Today the plan is to sand and paint the walls where the old meter and ripple boxes were in the entrance and hallway. I'll dig out my little mouse sander and paint from the garden shed shortly and it shouldn't take too long to do. Then MrK can put a mahogany frame he is making around the new meter to hide the gaps. We discovered the walls in the hallway are an inch thinner than the rest of the house, so the new meter has a wee gap all the way round it. MrK says it goes back to the day where an inch less on each side of the hall gave that little bit of extra room. One of the quirks of older homes. The builders also said if our home had been built in the last 10 years we would have had a lot more damage. It's solid as a rock thanks to 1950's work ethic.
Happy crafting
The storm is here, it was bucketing down and windy as heck. So glad the tree is down but eying up the second tree.Frilly cyclamen are so pretty, I saw them as well at Mitre 10 the other day. Three of the little cyclamen I bought in a six pack last season are flowering in the garden, I think I've lost the others. But a little bit of red, white and pink poking through the mulch adds a bit of cheer to a shaded garden.
The plumber is supposed to be coming this morning now to re-measure where the new gutters are going. We'll see if this weather stops him.
Today the plan is to sand and paint the walls where the old meter and ripple boxes were in the entrance and hallway. I'll dig out my little mouse sander and paint from the garden shed shortly and it shouldn't take too long to do. Then MrK can put a mahogany frame he is making around the new meter to hide the gaps. We discovered the walls in the hallway are an inch thinner than the rest of the house, so the new meter has a wee gap all the way round it. MrK says it goes back to the day where an inch less on each side of the hall gave that little bit of extra room. One of the quirks of older homes. The builders also said if our home had been built in the last 10 years we would have had a lot more damage. It's solid as a rock thanks to 1950's work ethic.
Happy crafting
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