Day mostly at home with the children suffering sickness but we got out for a Happy Eater lunch as a change from a diet of bread rolls and I put up lots of curtain rails and we made some more curtain and carpet decisions as the builders felted and battened the link building and I mounted the ladder to paint the weather vane pole. This as there is mounting horror in the aftermath of the volcano eruption, Reagan posturing for his “peace mission” as he leaves for Geneva, and Unionists up in arms over the Anglo Irish pact terms
A poor start to the night as the girls continued to be sick and cry in turns until the early hours, but then slept soundly. Awake to my morning tea and drank it by my bed. I still avoid sitting in bed for the trouble it caused me when my back was bad, as it is not good for it. Down to breakfast as usual in the lounge and then I sat, read the paper, and then read the post that followed it. A few forestry details, but not much to get excited about. Daniel off on time to school and, the girls still being queasy, we decided not to go out this morning, but do some chores inside instead. I continued putting up curtain rails in the dining room and then measured up and worked out all of the needs for curtain rails for the complete property. We decided to chance it for lunch and so set off to pick up Daniel from his school bus in St Neots and then took off for the Happy Eater for our Saturday lunch. The girls were ok, if Debbie a bit queasy, and Di and I really enjoyed the meal after our recent diet of bread rolls. Home via St Neots to drop in on Brittains and ask that they measure more rooms on Monday for curtains when they come. I bought my curtain rails (I am now standardising on Swish Deluxe) we were alarmed to hear that they are not taking any more carpet orders for fitment before Christmas and, after the two for the dining room and Daniel’s bedroom, we will have to try to get some others from St Neots Carpet Company.
On to the other curtain company to try to find a match to our velvet curtains, but still no joy. Home to afternoon tea and then, stopping only for evening tea, I worked right through until late putting up more curtain rails so that I have now finished all of those in our new house. Daniel was feeling queasy tonight and so we fitted him up with a large bowl before putting him to bed – it took all day for Di to wash out the girls things from their bouts of sickness! It rained hard today in the afternoon and evening, but the builders were here this morning and finished felting and battening the roof and tiled most of it, which was just as well. I went up the ladders earlier, put a second coat of paint on my weathervane support, and looked at the roof corner for the link building. They had uncovered a badly broken gully with a massive network of starling nests, which I started pulling out by hand. News tonight was evidently the same as yesterday. Mounting horror in the aftermath of the volcano eruption, Reagan posturing for his “peace mission” as he leaves for Geneva, and Unionists up in arms over the Anglo Irish pact terms.