Preparing the floor of The Hayling View for the carpet-fitters to work the next day
Preparing the floor of The Hayling View for the carpet-fitters to work the next day

After a whole family breakfast, I spent the day alternating between working on the FOCUS newsletters and preparing the floor of The Hayling View for the carpet-fitters to work the next day. The floors were ready by the end of this, but the FOCUS editions needed much more work. The anglers were active opposite on quite a nice day with a coolish breeze.

I was up for my normal Sunday breakfast which we ate this week as a complete family. I took Daniel a cup of tea at 8.00am just to make sure that he was up as well! After this, I updated this last couple of days' journals and I did so at my portable computer for once, as Daniel was using my Mac to print out some of his university work. I then worked on the FOCUS advertising supplements in the morning and Derek Giles came round with the last possible additions to these and then helped me finish them off.

** "Read More" BELOW for the complete story **

A nice Sunday lunch of roast chicken with the family followed and then I spent the afternoon working on the floor area in the upstairs central hall and corridor. The succession of builders, plumbers and electricians had cut the floorboards about terribly and not bothered to insert new bearers underneath them. I took them all up and, after adding stout pieces of wood under, secured them all down again tightly with more new screws. To do this job properly, I needed the battery-driven hand drill that used to be kept re-charging in the shed and had gone missing. Daniel was the prime suspect, but I found it in a cupboard eventually and put it on charge. The trouble was getting sufficient charge into it to act as a powerful screwdriver and I was left to fight that problem all day.

In view of this, I alternated between screwing the floorboards down and working at my computer, where the job was to arrange the FOCUS copy to try and make a logical format and series of linked editions. By the end of the evening, I had finished the floors ready for the carpet fitter to come the next day and had worked out the order of FOCUS work, but I still had all of the lay-out still to do. The weather was quite nice today, clear and sunny for the most part so that the conservatory temperature managed to get up quite high. There was a coolish breeze, however, and more unsettled weather is expected from tomorrow. The anglers were active opposite, coming early for a match and taking advantage of these last few days of the season. I would like to do some fishing but can hardly find the time. I was really pushed to finish off the FOCUS this time but could not find any help.