Right - I have a few minutes while Kai finishes the last little bit of glossing in his room (then all the painting is done. 'Oooray!)
You may have guessed it's been a bit busy, so this is just a quick catch up with photos. Kai's BMT clinic on the 21st went OK, I think (I don't go in with him any more). On the 25th he had his latest venesection (which reminds me, I need to book the next two...) and his ferritin level is down again (around 1,700 if I recall correctly. Heading in the right direction at any rate.)
On the 28th and 29th Crystal Clear installed the new windows and wow, they're gorgeous! (If I can say that of windows.) But it meant a lot of clearing out - of Kai's room particularly - to make space for the installers. We'd planned to redecorate Kai's room afterwards. He wanted a retro-distressed-Tudor look ([rolls eyes] of course he did...) which has been... interesting trying to accomplish. We've ended up with the walls from floor to radiator height in warm oak brown, and everything above that 'crushed almond', which is a warm, traditional cream colour (with a wisteria pinkish-mauvish feature 'wall' - i.e. the chimney breast). Actually it looks really nice, and from the door it looks like the room is full of sunlight. But it's taken five days to do, as we had to move furniture around to reach everything. And we still have to put up the new curtain pole for the new curtains (going to need a lot of drilling so that has to wait for Saturday when Ken can do it. Yes, I can drill, but the electric drill is too heavy for me to handle safely these days, and Kai hasn't used it yet. Given the state of our plaster, best leave it to someone who knows what they're doing!)
If he'll let me, I'll take a couple of photos once everything's finished and post them here.
The garden continues apace...
At the moment we're pretty much self-sufficient in veg, which was what I wanted. I'm finding it tricky to get my successional planting organised, but am fumbling through it. And making notes so I can get it more right next year. Need to get more maincrop peas on the go in the next few days. Will also plant more mange tout and less sugarsnap peas next year.
That's a misshapen purple carrot - actually very tasty!
Although almost too pretty to eat...
Bought these when Ken and I were last at Hurrans - dianthus 'Pearl'. They are very pretty, and they smell of chocolate! Yes, truly. I'm going to have to put one in a pot though: I can't bend down low enough to sniff them anymore...
We're onto Babylon 5 season 4 (watching two eps a night), and still thoroughly enjoying it. We're also working through the B-movies we got Ken for his birthday. He caught part of an old sci-fi film on TV and fancied watching the whole thing: all he could tell me was it was set in Scotland and involved an alien creature... Well, you know I like a challenge. Narrowed it down to two films, and found them on amazon, one of them on a DVD with three other films. As it happened, the film Ken caught was X the Unknown, which is actually not bad. Of the other DVD, we've caught The Angry Red Planet which is... mm, yeah, well, OK for the time it was made, I suppose, and Beyond the Time Barrier (which unfortunately saw me dozing off for a few seconds through it - mostly because I was stupidly tired rather than the film's content, although what I did catch didn't impress me. Kai liked it though).
So, busy as ever. Which has not been great for my joint problems, alas.
No doubt I've forgotten a few things I meant to say: will add them later if I remember. In the meantime, have a hot cat catching the fall of cooler air from the wide-open window just out of frame above!
Labels: Babylon 5, busyness, catch-up, decorating, films, garden, medical matters
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 1:04 pm
3 Comments:
awww hot kitty... :)
great news about the window (yes, plz, Kai, we would love to see pics of your room!)
... and making a note of that dianthus...
Kai's room sounds unusual but lovely. Hope we can take a peek when we're over!
GoodTwin
While I have a moment...
Kai's fine with pics, and he has a physio appt the day you visit, so a peek into his room will be OK!