Week 4 or is it month 4...?!
Time seriously is beginning to have no meaning... I have a week off which I had booked some time ago and was banned (along with everyone else who had it booked off) from cancelling my annual leave. I totally understand this because once everything goes back to "normal" (whatever that turns out to be) everyone in the business will start wanting their annual leave which isn't sustainable but given that I can't go anywhere on a jaunt, it's a little bit dull. So far, I have washed the car (completely by hand since I have no hose pipe and no outside tap), washed the front door and the lower front windows (as far I as I could reach without putting myself at risk and climbing a ladder anyway) and repainted the railings out the front.
This is a job I did last year intending to put two coats on and not have to do it again for a good 5 years but unfortunately, Welsh weather and a host of other things got in my way and so I had not had chance to put the second coat on. When I went out there to do it, I discovered that it was already corroding again and so I think I may have to get out there again this week and do a (second) second coat! I am not anxious to do this because it takes about 4 hours and it's not a job you want to do when it's stinking hot or freezing so you really are at the mercy of the elements. My shoulder hurts a lot from the effort of having it raised above my head for the better part of all that time but I am inclined to think that if I don't do another coat now, I will end up doing this every year which I really don't want to do!
Next on my list is the upstairs windows. Obviously, I can't do this from the outside since I don't have a tall ladder or a telescopic window thingy however, they are tip and tilt windows which means I can open them very wide and they open inwards so it should be quite easy to do from inside. What a thrill!
I have started making a crochet unicorn but I am finding it difficult to motivate myself to finish it which is annoying because it's in 4 pieces at the moment with 5 more plus the mane to create and then put together. They aren't large pieces but they are very fiddly hence the lack of motivation. I will get there.
People are still being incredibly stupid about the conditions of the lockdown which is staggering and also annoying because it won't be them that get struck down... if only that's how nature worked...
This is a job I did last year intending to put two coats on and not have to do it again for a good 5 years but unfortunately, Welsh weather and a host of other things got in my way and so I had not had chance to put the second coat on. When I went out there to do it, I discovered that it was already corroding again and so I think I may have to get out there again this week and do a (second) second coat! I am not anxious to do this because it takes about 4 hours and it's not a job you want to do when it's stinking hot or freezing so you really are at the mercy of the elements. My shoulder hurts a lot from the effort of having it raised above my head for the better part of all that time but I am inclined to think that if I don't do another coat now, I will end up doing this every year which I really don't want to do!
Next on my list is the upstairs windows. Obviously, I can't do this from the outside since I don't have a tall ladder or a telescopic window thingy however, they are tip and tilt windows which means I can open them very wide and they open inwards so it should be quite easy to do from inside. What a thrill!
I have started making a crochet unicorn but I am finding it difficult to motivate myself to finish it which is annoying because it's in 4 pieces at the moment with 5 more plus the mane to create and then put together. They aren't large pieces but they are very fiddly hence the lack of motivation. I will get there.
People are still being incredibly stupid about the conditions of the lockdown which is staggering and also annoying because it won't be them that get struck down... if only that's how nature worked...
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