Three weeks until I leave Ridley, and with all essays now handed in I am free for a few days. Those on other courses have exams (this time last year I was revising for Greek!) but I have nothing on the timetable for a whole week!
We've packed up my mum and dad's car with paint, dustsheets, food and tools and tomorrow I'm off to decorate a vicarage!
I've never bought so much paint in one go (the picture only shows h
alf of it), but then I've never tried to paint a whole house at once. I'm particularly looking forward to neutralising the orange lounge and the purple bedroom.
My target for the next week is to get the house to a state where the rest
of my family can visit in half-term week to worry about carpets and curtains.
So it's off to bed, then off to Wiltshire.
I'm absolutely very tired! After six solid days of painting, during which my Mum, Dad and I started cleaning and/or painting before 9am and finished each day at about 10pm, with the occasional break for food, drink or to pop out to top up supplies, I've stopped and returned home. And now the tiredness is catching up with me - I nearly fell asleep in chapel this evening, but this wasn't a comment on the quality of the speaker!
But go here to see the result - a selection of before and after comparisons. Evidence of further crimes against tasteful colours was discovered in other rooms, lurking behind radiators. As you can see, the difference between the late 90's and now is bold and loud versus muted and cool!
