Tuesday, 12 May 2009

During the past week Petros and Helen have been busy with the painting. The stairs walls which were papered with lining paper last week have now been painted, the woodwork and walls in the lounge have been completed along with a few pieces of skirting board for the dining area and the utility which will be fixed later. All that is left to do now is the final coat on the downstairs WC now that it's been changed from Cornflower White to Timeless (and it looks much better!). There's also a bit of patching to the plaster in the sun room then the dwarf wall under the windows and the skirting board need to be painted and then that's the decorating finished!

We've ordered the carpets and these should be arriving 21-26 May and Bradley should be coming soon after to fit them. Paul's been trying to cure the ticking central heating pipes, floorboards on the landing have been up and down the last few days. He'll have to get some hair felt to try and remedy the problem before the carpets are fitted.

Steve told us he can't fit us in for fixing the gas hob and the couple of little jobs to do with the boiler and radiator but has introduced us to a new Gas Safe registered chap who came this morning to see what's needed. He'll be back on Thursday to do the work but first Paul has had to remove three wall tiles in the downstairs WC so that the pipe for the radiator can be moved. We checked with the supplier and fortunately those tiles were a new line so they still have plenty left so we can buy a few extra to replace them. The spare ones we had are needed for the boxing in of the basin waste pipe.

Paul's red cell/white cell/platelet count have plummeted this week so he was taken back into hospital today for blood transfusions so will probably be away for a couple of days.

Just a few pictures of the garden for now, when I've found the batteries I'll take some more photos!


Red peppers in front planter, which I've had to rescue from marauding snails - beware guys, I've declared war! Carrots behind, leeks to the left.




Potatoes on balcony, five bags are mine, four behind are Tracy's. Fuschia in bed below along with dwarf runner beans. Runner beans also in pots. My mother's day azalea, camelia behind bird bath.






A few more runner beans in this bed along with a couple of fuschias and some gladioli just coming through.





The two concrete planters have bizzie lizzies with a rose and some double primulas in the bed behind. There's a hosta in the tub to the left and a twisted hazel in the right hand tub. Just peeping in on the left hand side is a winter jasmine that's grown through the fence from next door.




Dwarf rhodedendron, fuschia, and a shrub we brought with us - not sure what it is but it has tiny red fuschia-like flowers and very small leaves.