Decorating!
Took a week off to decorate the hall. Spent most of the week stripping paint off the bannisters and sanding them down. Some philistine had painted the solid oak hand rails and posts black - probably to hide the flaws - I've revealed them all again for that 'distressed' look. This is a job that I started about 5 years ago. Onto the last stages now, so hopefully I'll crack on next week, rather than leaving it for a few more years.
Novelist Supermum has done a good of stripping the woodchip from the landing walls, then painting the plaster underneath, plus the doors and doorframes.
I've stripped all the woodchip from around the stairwell walls - ready for painting next week.
Our well earned lunchbreaks have been keeping the local Cafes and Delis in business, not to mention the take-aways for easy and tasty evening meals.
We got to wave Frodo goodbye on Friday, as he headed off for his first weekend away from home. 2 nights with his schoolfriends at a local centre making shelters in the woods, and other outdoor activities - should be good fun for him. Samwise is at Grandma's tonights - we've moved an old set of 'bunk' beds round there, so he's bagsied the top one.
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