This damn fire has taken ages to take hold.

But now it’s doing great.

Despite having a new cold I spent most of today plastering. There’s now 125kg of plaster on the one wall I’m plastering.
Unfortunately, a further coat seems to be needed.

A few years ago, I decided to improve the main bedroom by stripping the plaster off the walls. This resulted in unexpected old brickwork as well as stone. It also gave me the opportunity to repoint walls that hadn’t been touched since the house was built.
Today I began plastering.

I fear I may have injured myself.

Somehow, for the second time in a few weeks, I managed to walk into a ladder.
But, despite my injury, I’m rather pleased that dismantling a pallet for kindling has left me with with the beginnings of a top for our new coffee table.

It just takes a little imagination.

Just saw a Honda commercial on TV. I was pretty surprised to hear the old Get Carter soundtrack.
I know the film wasn’t really locally produced, but it does still feel very local.
Maybe it’ll help sell cars too.

Just left my local. House of the rising sun was playing as I walked out the door. An Animal used to live in my street you know.

Right now, I’m on a bus to work. I’m relieved it’s Friday, doubly so because it’s going to be a short day. And, even more so because I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.

A friend of a friend stayed over last night. I guess he’s a friend now too. He’s a good bloke, very decent, but this time he brought his sister. Who also seems to be pretty nice too.

Last night, after she’d had a bottle of wine or two, she seemed to have taken a shine to my second in command. But I didn’t really think anything of that at the time.

Early this morning though, I woke up to find her in our bedroom, trying to snog my second in command and climb into our bed. I pretended to be asleep at first, thinking I’d leave the problem to my other half. After a minute or two, and after my second in command had nipped me to wake me up (that might’ve been around the point where our guest requested a threesome), I assisted in removing her from the room.

They’ll be leaving this morning anyway, so there’s no need for awkwardness or confrontation, but my second in command is currently in bed with the door locked.

Something to talk about over a beer.

I’ve just finished painting lintels and windowsills and cleaned up a little more of the mess left over from pointing the front of the house. The past week’s left me tired and achey, but not in a bad way. I think I’ve saved around £1,700 by doing the work myself and the exercise was probably good for me. Working so far above ground was pretty horrific, but It didn’t result in death or injury.

I’m not sure I’d want to go through the experience again though.