Week 11 Villa
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 6 Jun 2020 23:57
Week Eleven at Sleeping
Indian
Sunday the 31st of
May. The week began, as it should, with heavenly
eggs. I went back to the old method.
Well, it worked, soft all the way through (I had put in a very, very minor
complaint to the chef that mine were getting to be a bit too hard. I did the
worst first coat I have ever done on the bed frame bits...... The rest of the
day was filled with much pottering, sweeping and somehow it was supper
time.
Monday the 1st of
June. Bank Holiday and the authorities have banned anyone going to the
beach. Bedroom chaos as we put the frame together,
the bed base went up on cans of veg and I did a better job on the second coat.
Half the boys are really
getting on with it.
Bear prepared the front garden shower base ready to nab a bit of mix and we
pottered for the rest of the day.
Tuesday the 2nd. We
woke early and as the bed frame was dry we put it in
place and made the bed. The feet at the front are angled out slightly but enough
to catch toes. Straight on to Amazon to order channeled stick on sponge in
white. The order grew with sink tidy, sink grill, undershelf baskets, oven liner
and larder shelf liner. The boys arrived and prepared for the concrete to arrive
– huge excitement (own blog).
During the event a big frog (bottom centre) came out to see what all the fuss
was about. By the end of the day Bear was pleased with his efforts in the shower base (more detail in the blog The Big
Pour).......
Wednesday the 3rd.
Bear pottered with his shower base and worked at smoothing the kitchen wall in
readiness for me to tile. I first coated the two coffee
tables, the lounge fan blades, the frame that
will hang in the kitchen and put a second coat on the coasters for said coffee
tables. Captain (Lashley) did a splendid job on the right hand wall ridding it
of its popcorn finish, ably helped by Barry White (Baldwin) and Cutie (Benji)
who did the mixing.
I chatted Captain up who very kindly
put some mix on the bald patches on the upstairs
balcony.
Thursday the 4th.
Bear reassembled the finished fan blades and put them
back, then I had a plan. Oh Dear. The lounge
wall lights really will look out of place so I would like to swap them for the
ones on the stairs. Having searched here and on Amazon nothing took my fancy, so
why not use what we have. Bear set about taking the lounge
ones down, I gave them a good wash and he fitted the one at the top of
the stairs. I painted the dangly wire white and we were both pleased with the
result.
I put the second coat on the kitchen picture frame – now ready for darker grey spray and
put the first coat of teal paint on the two bedroom
mirrors. Bear nipped to the supermarket and then we went for a
swim.
Friday the 5th. I
leapt into action as we had a short day, we had to be ready for 14:30 – Part Two
of the Legendary Family Quiz. I sprayed the first coat on the coffee tables and kitchen frame. Bear organised his work
list for Beez and cut the wood to raise the larder half an inch and the
beams to set the cupboards further from the wall a) to look more in line and b)
so we can use the cupboards above the microwave and fridge. Seemed ridiculous to
us to design and fit two small cupboards that the doors won’t open (funnily
enough, when we saw them in the showroom exactly the same....).
Captain finished the left wall and Benji did the overhang. Barry White pottered
and did a little job for us – beheading the newel posts ready for chrome hats,
than all the boys began a tidy up ready to leave as it’s POETS
day......
Family
quiz was a real delight. Top prize goes to Ashley (nephew, top left) who,
in his best put on droll Brummy accent told us how the electric meter whizzed
when Jo turns on the hairdryer and minutes after cleans her teeth with her
electric toothbrush. This came about when I asked the family what the average
monthly electricity bill was. The common denominator was about seventy-five
pounds. Shock horror when I said ours was about three hundred....... Somehow we
managed to win and after kept chatting. Stuart (organiser) and Ashley (partner
not to be confused with Ashley top left) left us at about one (English time) but
Kate and Mark (top right of picture) kept chatting until gone two in the morning
(their time). Next quiz arranged for three weeks and we were given Popular Music
as a subject to come up with ten questions. Tim and Beccy (Bear’s other sister)
was give Nudism......we clearly dodged that particular bullet.....
Saturday the 6th. We
set to a ‘Big Clean’ this morning. It’s OK to live in total chaos but today we
needed to cut the crust off. Bear set to downstairs, me up, we swept and
scrubbed. After lunch Bear went to Beez to begin taking her covers off
as the breeze has picked up a bit each afternoon, she was pleased to see him and
was bone dry, he gave her a good blow through and left her happy.
After he had left, I mulled, then set
to on the job I have been putting off for weeks - the overhang above the bedroom
balcony. I started by using the step ladder but the gusts were a bit alarming. I
know....., I’ll make myself a tool. Bear got back just after dusk and we settled
to supper. By the time we got upstairs it was dark. As he closed the curtains,
Oh I see you have done a clean on the
balcony, so just the overhang to
do. I had always said I had to have it done before the tiler arrives
on Tuesday but it had become a bit of a mantra from Himself. I put the new balcony light on and pushed him out the door. Wow. But, that means you were a Dangerous Brian doing it by
yourself without me to support you. No, and with that I proudly
produced my ‘tool’. Cannot sign off on the job until
the boys have removed the wood, left the posts, Bear has added the wires and I
have painted the wood white. We both fell into bed too exhausted to watch an
episode. Another week has flown by.........
ALL IN ALL SOME GOOD RESULTS BUT
A LONG WAY TO GO
BITS ARE STARTING TO COME
TOGETHER |