Addendum: fixed a handrail to make it easier for my mother to get up and down the steps into the bungalow:
(should have done it years ago!)
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They had one - gone now, I think - called ‘Normandy Grey’ 
Very familiar …
I painted the exterior woodwork of a pal’s house, inc front door. He gave me tins of F & B ‘Navy Blue’ -ish. I could see why the interior decor merchants and mags like House & Garden love the colours but I found that was so soft - never seemed to go off to a tough glassy finish.
That was OK on the window frames but the front door started taking scuffs and marks immediately.I’d say it’s also not a paint that the average DIY’er will get on with.
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Very nice indeed!!!
Very relieved to have spent the afternoon recovering and transferring the contents of my previous laptop’s hard drive, which was not completely backed up. Had several book chapters whose back-ups weren’t as recent as I’d assumed (not since last October!) due to my Dropbox being full and my external hard drive mysteriously failing its last scheduled update.
Had removed the hard disc and taken it to a guy in town to recover. It took him a while, but when he only asked for €40, I said (unfortunately no guillemets on my new AZERTY keyboard!) Je pense que cinquante euros seraient plus appropriés. He looked a bit confused at first, but then slowly smiled, and as I felt it was a better price to pay, everyone was happy.
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We tried to fix a handrail at my mum’s house (uk), it would have helped , but she flatly refused it, but we won in the end
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@SuePJ Oh no I wish I’d seen this we could have met for coffee or you could have come chez moi for a lovely cup of tea.
I went to Berg and posted a huge box of baby stuff to Australia and paid my electrician, now minus an arm and a leg I hirpled home, talked at length with 60% of my children severally, did some restorative crochet, cleaned out the henhouse, restored the hob to shiny beauty, did lots of washing, did some visible mending, stuck clean cashmere jerseys in the freezer because moth paranoia, thought about doing garden tidying but no just fettled the compost heap. Et voilà.
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That sounds super. Sorry it didn’t happen. Next time maybe?
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Deffo
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Yes I have to negotiate such things too…
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Apart from 2 walks with Jules and kine session at 5pm, I made a start on cutting up a tree that fell across the fence between the garden and the new forest late last year. Always put off because of my shoulder injury. It is much stronger now but I still can’t raise the arm above the horizontal, but, I can get away without doing that so decided to tackle it.
No idea why it came down, bringing a slightly smaller tree with it, because the night that it happened there was no wind or storm and can only assume that it was the extreme weight of the several, thick, ivy strands that had curled round it all the way up.
Not yet finished, that will be tomorrow I hope, just glad that, although it was at least 20 feet high it wasn’t one of the many majestic 80 plus ones that I so love to sit and watch.
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And what did you do after lunch, @Vero?
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I have a camphor wood chest that my mother bought in Singapore in +/- 1954. To this day, taking a sniff as the lid is opened gives a scent of camphor. Like she did, I have stored woolens and other fabrics in it for years. When an item is fished out of the chest the dead bodies of moths fall off it.
They don’t get the chance to lay eggs, to turn into the larvae that eat fabrics. They go in there and die.
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Any photos of her please Sue ?
How lovely, I love the smell of camphorwood.
I’m mainly working and garden ing this week but I did do a little run to Saint Malo yesterday morning to pick up a painting I bought at auction. And got a sneaky dog walk on the beach in. Which was lovely if very cold and windy!
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Getting frustrated with poor French customer service..nothing new there.
Planning for arrival of new campervan next week (not related to above)
Prepping for my band rehearsal tonight.
Gorgeous weather here in Saone et Loire.
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Has to do that with my mother too. There are ways and ways of suggesting things I found. If it sounded like it was her idea in the first place then it was a doddle for her to agree. Now my neighbour of over 100 years of age reminds me that it was her idea in the first place. The elderly of today don’t give in easily. They’ve been through tough times and has to make tough decisions over the years
What doesn’t kill you, etc.
No longer Monday but has a Mondayish sort of feel to it.
4 fledgling great tits entertained us on the lawn with their appealing antics. Mouths agape they called for mummy to come and feed them. Then one crept over to sit on my shoe and tried to crawl up my trouser leg. Same happened with my husband too. They were right in the sun and when we came back in the car from visiting neighbours a little way away they were sat in a row on the driveway so we couldn’t pass by. Tried to put a photo on but couldn’t where am I going wrong? Any advice for a novice I used the arrow on the right hand corner opposite reply
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Use the paperclip symbol at bottom towards the right to upload.
Well….Monday has turned into…I don’t know what the day of the week but today, with the help of my carpenter ‘neighbour’ the floor was laid (yesterday) and the loo and the sink, and bathtub just fitted.
I could use a bath….or maybe some fresh clothing but….in few days time this will be finished.
I forgot to buy skirtings so off to town tomorrow to Gedibois to get some oak plinths and I’m going to cheat and use adhesive to fix them.
Maybe finished next week..ish.
Yes, it’s an oak floor and it’s in a bathroom but I have a phobia about wet tiles in a bathroom…I guess comes from being dragged to campsites as a kid and I still recall the smell of public shower rooms and wet tiles floor. Lame I know.
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