A busy weekend

We accomplished a lot of small jobs this weekend:

• Filled, sanded and painted the shower room window.
• Finished touching up the downstairs loo and cleaning up the paint on the windows (I never claimed to be perfect!)
• Painted some drawer fronts from our bedroom cupboards
• Raked out and filled cracks in the bedroom walls
• Raked out loose paint from the windows in our bedroom
• Pulled up and got rid of carpet from our bedroom and the two staircases
• Prepared the sitting room for the decorator by removing ancient curtain tracks and sundry hooks and writing the paint colours on the wall
• Purchased new knobs for our cupboards 

Goodbye yellow pipes!

The downstairs loo is now sparkling white.  We're pleased to see the back of the dingy yellow in there at least. 

We treated ourselves to a meal out on Saturday night and went to the Crown.    This evening we decided to go for a walk to get some fresh air, but it started raining as soon as we had got round the corner so we stood under a tree for a while and then walked on and stood under another tree and in the end cut our losses and walked round in a much smaller circle than we intended and got back home.

Tomorrow the man sanding the sitting room floor returns to finish off.  Perhaps a couple more days.  He's making an excellent job and it will look great.

Also arriving tomorrow is a decorator who is going to do the halls and stairs and the sitting room.  We shall see great progress in the next couple of weeks, though we think he has underestimated the time it's going to take him.