Virgin Mojitos - with Rum, 22nd and 23rd July

 

A couple of days of small jobs.

The threatened rain didn’t arrive, I’ve rarely seen such a dramatic change in weather forecast in less than 12 hours. Didn’t make any real difference though as our jobs were largely indoors anyway.

Over the couple of days I took down the internal garage door that I had almost demolished and started repairing and painting it. I also continued to layer on the filler on the balustrade post (can’t do too much at once or it won’t set) and helped Sally with the wardrobes.

The damage has been chopped out and a piece of MDF substituted, to start the repair.

Oh, and the new kitchen worktop was finished,

The tatty old

The rather nice new, with a good image of the new pan rack too.

Sally worked on the wardrobe’s and the area around Serena’s French door. The former has taken a lot of time but the job was completed today (Thursday) and I think the before and after photo’s show the transformation she has achieved.

The first image below is the room as it was when we moved in, so you can see the impact of the rest of Sally's work too.





Late afternoon Thursday, we put out the sun-loungers and poured a couple of Schweppes virgin mojitos (adulterated with rum of course). After nearly three weeks and only one day off – I think we’d earned the treat. Taking it steady the rest of the afternoon and evening. We’re planning to take tomorrow off – need to decide where to go (though it will probably include another Leroy Merlin visit).


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