On me own!

5 May 2014

Cold night but OK.  It was jolly cool this morning and I missed my teamaker, soulmate and bedwarmer.  Oh well.

Cut my finger, dropped and broke my medicine bottle.  Oh well.

Weather glorious!

Went to the tip - closed because it's Monday
Went to Mr Bricolage and bought a couple of things, including a rechargeable screwdriver
Changed the gas bottle but realised that I had left the connector on.  Luckily the woman in the kiosk had the strength of a colossus and managed to get it off.  Left me wondering whether I could get it on again.

Home for a cuppa before tackling the flamethrower/gas bottle issue.  I am being emotionally brutalised by 2 swallows that KEEP coming into the kitchen and flying around in a panic until they find the open door.  I am unfortunately scared into immobility and they ignore my pleas to 'Please go away'

After a couple of false starts and managed to do half the potager before the gas firelighter ran out and that meant closing up the house again and going to the supermarket to buy another.  Finally got going with the flamethrower. Then had some lunch and it was already 3 o'clock.

So I got started with the painting and carried on til 8.  Dropped the brush 4 times, beginning to wonder if I have some degenerative disease, it'll have to hang on for a few years, I've got things to do.
The late finish meant I missed the optimum time for a bath, which is 7pm, which is when the sun is shining into the room and the temperature goes above freezing.  Made some dinner and talked to Chris on Skype.  Luckily it stays light til 10 because I was faffing around for ages.

Tuesday 6 May
Warmer night but day began badly - for a change!  Dead rat in the kitchen.  Thanks for putting down the poison just before you left Chris!  Managed to get it into the garden using long handled dustpan and brush after I had taken off my glasses so I couldn't see what I was doing.

The kettle is making odd noises, I don't think it's long for this world, and sur les dernieres jambes.  Anyway, as I couldn't face eating in the kitchen next to the damp rat-shaped  splodge on the floor, I went and had breakfast at Leclerc's and bought some garden stuff.  Went to the dechetterie twice but the queue was really long - first day open after the bank holiday weekend.

Tidied up the garden a bit before trying the dechetterie for the third time. Yay, third time lucky.  Got home at 2 with a view to doing a few hours' painting and of course it bloody well started raining.  So I gave the poor old yellow laurels some magnesium and made a cup of tea.

I tried to paint the insides of the shutters but it's too dark with them shut, I stumbled along for about 3 hours with occasional visits from the bleedin' birds.

Lynne arrives tomorrow.  Yay!!!!