Five litre pots of paint are
heavy. Though it's not so much the weight, it's the bottom rim of the pot pressing into the small of the back from inside the rucksack that hurts.
Nevertheless, we now have the ice-blue paint for the hall/landing/upstairs hall, the ice-blue gloss for the woodwork of the same, a pendant lampshade... um... thingie, you know, the bit that holds the lampshade in place on the end of the lightcable hanging from the ceiling (the people who had the house before us took the lower half of nearly every light fitting with them when they left. No, I have
no idea why. It's a bloody nuisance though) so we can put up the pretty new frosted glass 'fjord' shade I bought at
The Range last year. And some new paintbrushes, and a roller on a very long handle so I don't have to hang perilously over the banister with an ordinary roller packing-taped to a broom handle to paint the ceiling and walls over the stairwell, like I had to last time.
So, all set to tackle the upstairs hall first - well, I will be when we've shifted the two full bookcases up there and scrubbed the woodwork. It's amazing how grubby a dog - and a young sprog - can make paint... Hoping to start tomorrow, but we'll see. I'll try to get photos, but the upstairs hall is small and quite dark, so I may have difficulties there.
Ken sanded and primed the gate today, ably helped by Kai. It wasn't until he'd finished with the primer that he read that it takes
sixteen hours to dry. [sigh] So no undercoating until tomorrow - or the day after if the threatened rain arrives, the work really has to be done outdoors. But it's a start!
I think I've just about finished preparing the rosemary stump too, and decided where the three (at the moment, though I'm now looking for another small one) orchids will sit. And which branch will hold the black peacock I bought in Winchester!
My
Vampire High DVD arrived this morning from amazon.com (early birthday present: it was only $8 dollars plus $6 p&p - about £8 in total). Not the whole series, unfortunately, that hasn't been released (yet. I hope it's a 'yet'...): the first four episodes edited together into a 90 minute film (with nothing missing but the commercial breaks and credits, except at the very beginning and very end, of course.) It's finished showing on the Horror channel now, alas - ended on a cliffhanger, dammit! Heh, plot holes you could drive a deathstar through, internal inconsistencies, and some dodgy acting, but I really don't care - I
thoroughly enjoyed it, it's an oddly sweet, endearing show, with some great characters, much potential and an intriguing plot. My problem is I could very, very easily be sucked into writing in the fandom - there were so many questions left unanswered and stories left untold... But I can't. Can't take on anything else at the moment. For now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed the rest of the series comes out on DVD.
I also managed to write another three pages of
2AC 1.4.4, which had ground to a halt a couple of weeks ago. Back in the swing again, which is great.
Band 3 at 27 pages and I'm not happy with the way it's going. It needs a lot more work, which I'm afraid means it's going to be a bit delayed...
Back to the loom.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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