Stripping

With all of yesterday's events, and still no change with my Nan I really need something to keep me occupied today... I don't want to have little to think about or do as that will only result in me being incredibly miserable all day.

The morning is pretty much taken up by doing the weekly shop (which for some reason is turning more into a fortnightly shop). We did quite well on the froogle side of things too, it was as if someone had analysed our usual shopping list and put all sorts of offers on the things we regularly buy, such as BOGOF (buy one get one free) or BOGOHP (buy one get one half price). So we actually manage to save £10 in total from our usual average spend and get almost double the food.

By the time we get home and unpack the shopping it's time for lunch (tomato soup, fresh bread and grated cheese) and then of course there is nothing to do....

Not for long however. I've been bleating on about the colour scheme of our hallway for months now. It's horrible. It's blue and green and has a yellow dado rail... nuff said? But despite my ramblings of disgust etc I'd not actually done anything about it. But with the prospect of and after noon filled with nothing looming, when Phil suggested we should strip the hallway and rid it of its evil wallpaper painted coverings I went along with the idea willingly.

We went and got a wall paper stripper and all the other things you need to do such a job and 4 hours later we'd removed 99.9% of the paint which was covering the wallpaper and the wall paper which was covering the browny purple paint. It's well weird because in some places you can trace the decor of the house all the way back to when it was built (shiney plastic blue paint, yellow paint, purple paint, white wall paper, blue and green paint).

So with the bulk of it done we have some tea and watch some TV, ending in the last two episodes of 24.... who'd have thought they'd do that to Jack the back stabbing bastards!

Posted by Abi on the June 26, 2005 10:31 PM

sjon at June 28, 2005 6:56 AM