Flourpot Charcoal

My brother is here to paint our house.  I had a whole heap of colour panics yesterday, but the fact that the colour label was missing from the tin and the Dulux colour matcher thing was being repaired, and the other paint shop place couldn't seem to match the paint either, turned out to be a good thing.  My brother being late also turned out to be a good thing too.  As the whole delay meant I waited to him to have him give his opinion on the paint colours as well.  The match pots I had just were not quite right, but I was about to plump for one or t'other as I knew I was going to have to buy the paint for him to start!

So in this whole meantime, I went to the Flourpot to buy some bread.  We had all agreed that this cafe was a good colour for us.  Me, my brother, my husband.  In fact this had been the colour we had been trying to match by eye!

So I was in there, buying bread, and thought I would ask them if they knew what colour the outside walls were painted.  The first girl didn't know, but the other one thought she knew who might know and took my number and offered to see if she could find out.

Later she texted me with "go to Johnstones paints on New England rd. ask for John and ask him for Flourpot Charcoal!  So later, my brother and I took the paint samples I had put on a bit of card and went there and compared the walls to the colours we had.  It was indeed the just right mix of the two but with a blue rather than a green tinge to it.  Definitely the colour we preferred.  So we dashed off at 4.30pm to Johnstones, John was there and sorted us out with paint.  It turns out that its a match for a Farrow & Ball colour.  So if anyone is interested, we are about to paint our house "off black"  yup.  a blooming Flourpot charcoal house! We have a veyr bright pink door and I think its going to look fab.  HA! well I blooming hope so.  Its been something I've been thinking about for several years now.  And whatever happens it will most definitely look better than the very grubby in need of a filling wall that we had before.

If you are interested in the whole Ideas for My home board I have built on pinterest.  Its here.

Will share pics of course!

With regard to the 29 gifts.  Still going.  I haven't been counting the days.  I am not sure where I am at.  I did give a gift on Tuesday. -  I tipped heavy on my morning coffee and donated to the charity they support too.  Wednesday.... I gave my undivided attention to a mum at school and listened to her air her grievances. Being off facebook is just great.  I am still horrified by the whole Brexit fiasco.  I believe the Chalcot report has added to the general hoo ha of bad politics.  Am feeling best well out of it.  There is not much I feel I can do about any of it, and getting angrier and more upset is not going to help anyone. 

The funny thing is that I seem to be being given gifts myself. On Monday, a friend offered to take Bub and give him tea and all for no reason, and yesterday,  I was given a pair of brand new shoes for my son (as another child's feet grew too much for them before they were even worn).   And I asked our builder chap if I could hire his ladder. I need one and was prepared to hire it from HSS but thought I'd ask him instead.  He refused money and insisted that we borrow it for a couple of days as he wasn't using it.  (I rounded his fee up some  - maybe i can buy him a bottle of wine? he's a nice man)