Last Wednesday I suddenly decided to replace the wooden internal window ledge in my kitchen with a while plastic one. I'd started the job about ten years ago but abandoned it temporarily when I realised I couldn't fit the new one on top of the old one because there wasn't quite enough clearance for the vertical blinds. So what I though was a nice quick job that would be finished in time for morning coffee turned out to be a day's work finishing just before 5pm.
However by this time I was in change mode. So ordered the new bed that I'd been thinking about for several years. Then I decided that although the bedroom had been recently decorated (in 2002 - I'm not a great one for change for change's sake) it could possibly do with a new coat of paint before the new bed came. So I emptied it and prepared everything for the painting to start yesterday. I was just intending to do the ceiling. I ended up doing the ceiling and the walls. Job finished. (It's all the preparation and masking that takes the real time). By 5pm my back and paint-brush-holding hand were aching so preparing dinner for Pat and Dave was a welcome relief.
We had a cracking evening and eventually stopped eating and talking around 11.30pm. All my tiredness and aches had gone with the food (possibly the wine helped too). It was a beautiful evening and I had no lights on in the house so we hadn't realised how late it had got.
So this is yesterday and this morning in pictures taken from the front of my house (unfortunately those at 3.40 am were taken through my windows because the midges were just too bad for me to be bothered going outside with so much flesh exposed).
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| Yesterday morning - 0750 - flat calm sea |
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| Yesterday evening - 2327 - almost the longest day |
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| This morning - 0344 - a beautiful morning in prospect |
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| This morning - 0709 - the mist and rain's set in. This is Scotland after all. |
