Taking a turps shower

Painting, painting, painting! Most of the last two days has been spent... painting! I had delusions of doing all eight windows (undercoat and two coats of my beloved 'white swan') in two days... yeah, I was kidding myself. The windows are quite large - floor to ceiling - so painting the window frames is a pretty big job and I doubt a professional could get them all done in that time. My haste to try and get most of it done resulted in 'white swan' all over me but I think there's still more on the window frames at least.

I spent all of yesterday painting and decided, after going home briefly to feed a little person in the evening, to go back to the house and paint some more. So I headed back to the house, made myself a cup of tea, turned on the radio and sat down on the floor to paint - good therapy! After what seemed like half an hour I looked at the clock and relized I'd been there for nearly three hours... oops! It was almost 11pm and, given that I'd need to be up early the next day, I decided to call it a night.

Other work that's been done along the way - the ugly sliding door from the lounge room to the kitchen has been removed and the door frame replaced, the air con in the bedroom window is also a thing of the past and a few other smaller things have also been patched up. Also discovered my skills as an expert fisherman (woman?) when I had to retreive a window winder (windows open outwards via these small winder knobs) from a large can of paint after one of my trusty assistants dropped it in there. He redeemed himself today by providing us with a yummy lunch so it's all good now.

"And there was evening and there was morning"...