Saturday 25 April 2020

One Daily Positive - Week 17 Back to the decorating

I seem to have switched my weekends back into Dubai mode, doing little on Friday on Saturdays, this makes it easier for me and Peter to keep in touch as he's really busy during the week with work, so I find it easier to occupy my time.

I've been going through my dads things recently and have been scanning stuff from his football career with Barry Town FC to the club for their records. Found a letter from Aston Villa inviting my dad to play in goal for them against Stoke in 1960. However my dad didn't make the team line up for the day and this was 5 years before they had subs in the game. As a Birmingham City fan, I now appear to have gained an awful lot of Villa fans after I tweeted the photo out.

If I don't get up, breakfasted and dressed straight away I tend to lounge around in my pjs and whilst I rest, I don't feel tired at the end of the day and keep waking early, feeling tired, so I need to stick to a routine to keep me motivated.

110 Sunday Cleaned the bathrooms, got dressed and spent the morning putting the bedding plants in, washing and repotting seeds, followed by walking Bob to the local shops as I'd run out of milk, picked up some magazines and sweets to post to my mum and some ice cream for me. Took myself off to bed for an hour and slept, hoovered, had dinner and watched Grease. Random calls throughout the day. Spent the evening writing letters.


111 Monday Lifted the hall/landing carpet, sanded down woodwork and repainted, sadly I don't have enough paint to finish the rest of the doors and skirting boards, spent time in my craft room painting rocks. Wrote some more letters, starting with one to our grandchild to read when they're older. Spent the afternoon lazing in the garden.

112 Tuesday Lacking motivation to do anything today. Got dressed and finished painting the walls, relaid the carpet, cleaned everything up and started a new project, papier mache a balloon. Bob and I walked to the postbox, we seem to go most days. I had a lovely surprise through the post from a twitter friend of a felting kit. Sanded down the rest of the woodwork and hooverd up, my house has never been so clean.

113 Wednesday I had to call a plumber out for the waste pipe in one of the bathrooms, as it came loose, he fixed the guttering and the over flow on the downstairs loo. I sorted through our finances while he was here and caught up with blog posts. Used the last of the paint to finish painting the downstairs loo and main bathroom. I managed to track down some paint through a facebook group Dean commented we should practice social distancing, doh!, anyway I thanked him for his time to make the comment. I walked with Bob to collect it for free, which was a bonus and let I Dean know we'd safe distanced on the handover. Dean's reply on the facebook group was 'just trying to help you protect ourselves' The guy I collected from is called Paul and a proper painter and decorator, offering me some handy tips. Sat in the garden for the afternoon blogging, remade the bed, cooked dinner and watched some TV and made poms poms for a rug.

114 Thursday I did nothing all morning, it's the 7th anniversary since we adopted Bob, I wrote a couple of letters, walked Bob to post them. Resumed with the painting, one door, frame and bathroom skirting boards took 2 hours, the earliest Emirates are flying is July 1st, so I've plenty of time to finish the job. In the evening I started a jigsaw puzzle, watched Children in Need/Comic Relief and joined the dwindling numbers of neighbours for clap for the NHS.

115 Friday Another slow start, a zoom call with a twitter friend and whatsapp chatting Ramadan Kareem to all my friends in the UK, Dubai and Egypt for a couple of hours, left over fajitas  from last night for lunch, assembled the new mower and did the lawns, finished painting the walls in the bathroom. Walked with Bob to the local shop to buy milk and some goodies, it was a bit stressful as one woman didn't know how to social distance and I ended up yelling at her to back off.

116 Saturday I prepared the main bedroom for painting, mowed the lawn, sat in the garden with a coffee and the cat. I decided to let her out for a bit now each day, so far she's only left the garden once, but was at the neighbours over the road. I've painted all the woodwork, walls and the radiators, just leaving two doors and a small amount of skirting board to do tomorrow as I can't get all the carpet up in one go, without shutting myself in the room.
I spent the evening registering 25 facilities in South Africa with a Christmas gift giving charity.



On the blog this week:

Darren was back with #MySundayPhoto this week so I linked up with a post on what I've been doing in the garden during lockdown

How I'm dealing with lockdown


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32 comments:

  1. All of your dad's things sound so interesting.
    It sounds like you had a busy Sunday. The garden is looking great and I love the painted rocks.
    That looks like an epic jigsaw. x

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    1. I've really enjoyed looking through all my dads things

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  2. All the football memorabilia sounds so interesting. Hardcore jigsaw - that looks a complicated one. Lack of social distancing in queues winds me up

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    1. Once I sorted the edge pieces, it was really easy to do, I just had to set limits on how long I sat there for

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  3. I love your painted rocks. The Aston Villa letter sounds interesting. I didn't know that they didn't have subs that long ago. It's good that you managed to get your pipe fixed - and that you were able to get some paint.

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    1. I've been learning so many new things about football and my dad

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  4. Love the contented pussy cat picture. Glad you managed to find a plumber and some paint. You seem to be finding plenty to keep you busy.

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    1. Got a whole load of new projects to work on now

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  5. Sounds like you've had a really busy week doing stuff in the house and garden. Glad you managed to find a plumber. Love the pompoms and the painted rocks. The jigsaw looks fun. Hope you have a good week. #project366

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  6. All of your dad's things sound so interesting. Love them. The jigsaw is great and a fab way to pass the time. I need to do some painted rocks with the kids, these look great xx

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    1. I need to find a way to stop the colours fading on the rocks

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  7. We have started doing some jigsaws and a bit of rock painting, its so hard finding different activities to keep my boys entertained. Our house needs a proper good clean and sort out but don't seem to have enough time or energy! x

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    1. My house is beyond clean at the moment, I need to find a few new activities

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  8. hope Pushkins is enjoying the new found freedom.
    Oh never tried a pom pom rug, but not a major lover of making pom poms.
    what are you going to do to amuse yourself once all your DIY is finished

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    1. I'm going to crochet and still have downstairs to paint

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  9. I love the sound of your house with all the different projects to keep you busy. Saying that, I'd have no time to do them all here now that I'm back to working from home anyway ! Love your craft projects and the football stuff sounds really interesting. Some people just seem to have no concept of distancing, it's crazy !

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    1. I'm really enjoying going through all the football stuff

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  10. Happy anniversary to Bob! He looks so relaxed in the grass. Glad you're keeping busy with painting projects. That dean of your Fb group is a dumbass. Since the lockdown all these self-appointed bosses aka mini-dictators have sprouted like weeds everywhere. They think they're so important, and everyone should listen to their words of wisdom. I'm envious of your jigsaw, I haven't had a go at a jigsaw in the last year.
    Keep safe!

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    1. If you can get a jigsaw you should try it, I found it quite relaxing

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  11. Nice garden. You've been up to quite alot of cleaning. Cute rocks and nice pom poms. Here, there's no concept of social distancing in the market.

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    1. I can imagine it's not a lot of fun going out to the busy markets at the best of times

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  12. The cat looks like it is enjoying the sun. Good luck with the jigsaws, not sure I have the patience!!

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    1. The cat has been loving the garden, she destroyed my jigsaw though

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  13. You sound like you are keeping very busy and getting lots done. I also yelled at someone who got too close the last time I went shopping. It's sad that we have to, let's hope things eventually settle and we can breathe a bit.
    #project365

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    1. It's sort of bad and good that I have the whole house to sort

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  14. It sounds like you have been keeping busy and making the most of your time. I wish I had time and space to do a jigsaw: our house is an utter tip after the kids have trashed it for the last 6 weeks! #project366

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    1. with no kids here, I've got all the time and space to do anything i want

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  15. Love the painted rocks. Sounds like you are getting a lot done around the house. Wish I had some paint so could get painting.

    I need to get some more jigsaws

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    1. I've now run out of paint for the woodwork, so come to a halt for now

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  16. wow! you have achieved so much in a week. You put us to shame. Sounds very productive. The rocks are very pretty, I am thinking of doing some with the boys. Although they never want to leave them when we go for a walk. I brought a jigsaw at the beginning of lockdown and still haven't got to it.

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  17. I'm waiting for my 2nd jigsaw to arrive, I keep meaning to take the rocks out with me and leave them in various places but I keep forgetting

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