Lovely daughter has just brought home a container full of juicy purple blackberries ( Read more... )

I just put down the paintbrush long enough to nip up the lane and collect daughter from friends house. She would be frightened walking home in the dark ( Read more... )

Ceiling beams to be precise ( Read more... )

I'm too soft. I'm so busy with painting and decorating the entire house. The trouble is that where new skirting boards are, there are some places that need filling. Now, I know for a fact that two places in particular have resident spiders. I don't like spiders, they give me the heebie jeebies. I just can't bring myself to fill their holes up with ( Read more... )

I've spent at least 6 hours just sanding all the globs of plaster off my kitchen walls. Then I rubbed down the paintwork and new woodwork. Then I washed it all with sugar soap - without wearing gloves. Then I filled all the cracks (many) in the new plasterwork and went round the joints with flexible filler ( Read more... )

Hah! I moved back to the UK.
I think Uraguay sounds good now though.