An active day working with Steve and Alan and I was pleased to get a visit from Daniel and Angela this afternoon and then a rest and bath.
This, before the journey home arriving before bedtime and getting un-packed before relaxing in the lounge with Diana and my mail and the week's local newspapers.
It was cold again last night, and I was tired, only waking with my radio alarm at 7.00am and barely being ready for the start of work again half an hour later. A hurried breakfast and then went down to unlock "Harnser" and get everything under-way. I carried on cutting the architrave and the window sills and linings, getting Alan to carry on fixing them behind me and asking Steve to go and get the further supplies and materials that we wanted. He was not too keen on this running around and had to make a second trip to achieve all I wanted because of mistakes and impatience on the first one. He now knows the frustrations of getting supplies and the problems I had been having all summer, running around after a team of workers when wanting to get some work done myself.
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On his return, he started taping the masterboard joints with self-adhesive fibreglass tape and then skimming them with Artex mixture, used as a filler which proved quite effective in binding the panels together. By the end of the day we had finished this job, fixed just about all of the timber mouldings and sealed all of the outside cladding joints with mastic as well. I paid Steve and Alan off for the week but had to sit, unwind and rest for a while before packing up ready to come home. A bath and change also helped to refresh me and make me ready for the journey.
I was pleased to get a visit from Daniel and Angela this afternoon as he wanted to borrow my jigsaw to fit yet another couple of Hi-Fi loud speakers to the rear parcel shelf of his car. I was even more pleased to see Angela recovered; looking well and able to walk around and climb the stairs on her own. The journey home, arriving before bedtime and getting un-packed before relaxing in the lounge with Diana and my mail and week's local newspapers. Everything and everybody seemed fine, but the moles were still attacking my lawns and need attention urgently.