So this weekend has been a busy one. For some reason John was wide awake at 4.30am on Saturday morning and couldn't go back to sleep so we were up early and working on the door frames mega early. We are pleased with progress so far but they will need a second coat and we can't wait to be able to rehang the doors because the early morning sunlight isn't helping with the sleeping!!!
I am toying with the idea of putting a wash on the doors. They are a nondescript brown colour with a grain to them but we aren't convinced that this isn't some sort of paint effect rather than the natural grain of the wood. Now that the door frames are cream, the walls are magnolia and the floor tiles are a pale neutral colour the brown doors don't look right. I am going to try a wash on the top surface of one of the doors to see what it looks like. If it is awful then no-one will know!!!
We are paring down the amount of furniture we have in the conservatory. Having painted the walls the room looks lighter and brighter and now the orange tub chair is surplus to requirement - its partner is being housed down at mum's - the are a bit tatty - one where the cats seemed to use it as a scratching post and the other where for some reason the wood on top has lost a lot of its varnish.
I advertised them on a local for sale site and they have gone quickly - I probably could have charged more but we really just wanted them out of the way and the lady who has bought them picked them up from Mum's on Sunday. She was telling us that she is going to paint them - including the upholstery using a technique with chalk paint that leaves the fabric looking and feeling like leather. I shall be intrigued to see what they turn out like - she says she is going to do the wood black, the upholstery white and then put black flowers on the white upholstery. Well good luck to her - at least the chairs will give someone else some pleasure.
On the subject of Mum we went down Sunday to have lunch with her. Sundays are becoming a bit of a bogey day for us because today we learned that Dad's brother, Uncle Doug, passed away in the early hours of this morning. He lived in Canada and had been poorly for a while, developing leukaemia in later life. There are now only two of the six siblings remaining: my Aunty Joyce and my Aunty Val. Over the last two years we have lost Dad, Uncle Doug, Uncle Viv and Aunty Norm, four of the six children and Uncle Viv's wife Ros, Aunty Norm's husband Tommy and Aunty Val's husband Alf. I know that arguably they were all of an age but not so very long ago it looked like they would go on forever.
So as I said we had lunch with Mum managing to eat outside although the weather today was very weird, hot, muggy and stormy up in the hills.
We had a lovely lunch, Mum had done coronation chicken and I made coleslaw and we picked up a tub of roast potatoes en route from Paps which we crisped up before eating. We rounded this off with apple pie and cream or ice-cream.
When we arrived Mum was having her new TV system installed - I suggested she might benefit by having a paid service which should be more stable particularly as she has had no end of problems whilst the world cup has been on.
Fortunately we have seen a system like the one she has got so if she has any operation issues we should be able to talk her through although I have written down some notes in her book of instruction for both live and catch-up TV - I think she will love the catch-up side as she often sees things on Channel 4 or Channel 5 at odd times of the day which we cannot find for her at a time when it is reasonable to watch. She says her head is spinning trying to get to grips with her new phone and her new tv system but she is really doing exceptionally well.
Mum and I went out to leave John in peace to watch the England game versus Panama which ended up as a 6-1 victory to England. We headed down to Superhome Centre and Debenhams and were gobsmacked to see that the big roundabout at the end of the motorway is being dug up - we reckon they might be putting in a fountain but it wasn't easy to see exactly what was occurring save that there are a load of hoardings and some very heavy plant inside. We were also amazed so see that most of the upper carpark at Superhome Centre is cordoned off as they appear to be going to resurface it.
We had a mooch, picked up a few bits and bobs like lightbulbs and then made our way back to Emba and watched the last 20 minutes or so of the football before packing up and returning to Villa 10B.
I am toying with the idea of putting a wash on the doors. They are a nondescript brown colour with a grain to them but we aren't convinced that this isn't some sort of paint effect rather than the natural grain of the wood. Now that the door frames are cream, the walls are magnolia and the floor tiles are a pale neutral colour the brown doors don't look right. I am going to try a wash on the top surface of one of the doors to see what it looks like. If it is awful then no-one will know!!!
We are paring down the amount of furniture we have in the conservatory. Having painted the walls the room looks lighter and brighter and now the orange tub chair is surplus to requirement - its partner is being housed down at mum's - the are a bit tatty - one where the cats seemed to use it as a scratching post and the other where for some reason the wood on top has lost a lot of its varnish.I advertised them on a local for sale site and they have gone quickly - I probably could have charged more but we really just wanted them out of the way and the lady who has bought them picked them up from Mum's on Sunday. She was telling us that she is going to paint them - including the upholstery using a technique with chalk paint that leaves the fabric looking and feeling like leather. I shall be intrigued to see what they turn out like - she says she is going to do the wood black, the upholstery white and then put black flowers on the white upholstery. Well good luck to her - at least the chairs will give someone else some pleasure.
On the subject of Mum we went down Sunday to have lunch with her. Sundays are becoming a bit of a bogey day for us because today we learned that Dad's brother, Uncle Doug, passed away in the early hours of this morning. He lived in Canada and had been poorly for a while, developing leukaemia in later life. There are now only two of the six siblings remaining: my Aunty Joyce and my Aunty Val. Over the last two years we have lost Dad, Uncle Doug, Uncle Viv and Aunty Norm, four of the six children and Uncle Viv's wife Ros, Aunty Norm's husband Tommy and Aunty Val's husband Alf. I know that arguably they were all of an age but not so very long ago it looked like they would go on forever.
We had a lovely lunch, Mum had done coronation chicken and I made coleslaw and we picked up a tub of roast potatoes en route from Paps which we crisped up before eating. We rounded this off with apple pie and cream or ice-cream.
When we arrived Mum was having her new TV system installed - I suggested she might benefit by having a paid service which should be more stable particularly as she has had no end of problems whilst the world cup has been on.
Fortunately we have seen a system like the one she has got so if she has any operation issues we should be able to talk her through although I have written down some notes in her book of instruction for both live and catch-up TV - I think she will love the catch-up side as she often sees things on Channel 4 or Channel 5 at odd times of the day which we cannot find for her at a time when it is reasonable to watch. She says her head is spinning trying to get to grips with her new phone and her new tv system but she is really doing exceptionally well.
Mum and I went out to leave John in peace to watch the England game versus Panama which ended up as a 6-1 victory to England. We headed down to Superhome Centre and Debenhams and were gobsmacked to see that the big roundabout at the end of the motorway is being dug up - we reckon they might be putting in a fountain but it wasn't easy to see exactly what was occurring save that there are a load of hoardings and some very heavy plant inside. We were also amazed so see that most of the upper carpark at Superhome Centre is cordoned off as they appear to be going to resurface it.
We had a mooch, picked up a few bits and bobs like lightbulbs and then made our way back to Emba and watched the last 20 minutes or so of the football before packing up and returning to Villa 10B.
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