Friday 14th June
Rare Bird Alert News
https://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sightings.htmAtrocious weather for June, wherever you live! 40mph winds and heavy rain all day long. My plants are getting battered. I drove into Lerwick to get various DIY items I needed, also had a GP appointment and then ended up
popping into Odie's Antique and Collectable Shop, which is always
fascinating to look in and purchased an insanely heavy, life size lamb
statue. It looks brilliant on my front lawn and I have named it Lucy! 😊
After not being able to get hold of my builder Alex since the 27th May, as his phone wasn't working properly, he arrived this morning to finish off the room, which he has insulated, replaced the floor and today put new skirting board on and finished off sanding the filler. There is still more sanding I need to do before I start to paint. Alex also had to remove some of the bottom of the door, now the floor is higher, to allow for the new carpet to fit underneath when its fitted in July. I may have to cancel the carpet fitting though, as the electrician needs to do some work in there beforehand – he was supposed to be here at 9.30am, by 12.30pm I heard nothing, so rang him and he then texted to say he had a family emergency – I hope that whatever has happened, that everyone is ok!
Alex ran out of skirting board (that I had already painted), so he had to go and pick some more up. So now I have to paint rest of skirting board, finish sanding down, fill holes in the skirting boards where they have been attached to the wall and the same with holes in the window frames. Repair a large patch of wallpaper where the storage heater was (that will be huge fun, not), undercoat and paint the room twice, patch up all dirty marks on recently painted ceilings and other two inside walls (that were not insulated) and paint window frames. Then I need three double sockets installed, fit a new four bar light I have purchased. Final stage will be buying and getting fitted a Rointe Belize Radiator, get carpet fitted, order blinds for windows – then put flat packed desks together, buy or get made shelves for back wall and then I can finally move my computer equipment in there and everything else I need to store, such as father's slide and photo collection, mother's nature diaries, the list goes on! Basically this will be an office, storage room and craft room. Weather is going to be rubbish all weekend, so a good time to start this work!
Just found a massive slug crawling on the front stable door mat – how did that get in?!!! 😲😳
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