Daily Update Monday 26th June 2017

What is going well?

I had a lovely weekend.   On Saturday Bub played in the Strings Orchestra - and really did seem to be playing on time and the right note, paying attention, you know, on it, trying.  All I can ask.  It was lovely actually.  The whole thing, not just his bits, the choir and the youth orchestra, in a church in Hove.  Proper sort of concert thing.  Bless.

Went out on Saturday night for a friends birthday and met some new people as well as parents from the school who are lovely.  One of them is coming round today to see if  / how he can fix our floor.

We wanted to get the floor all sanded and made good, but the flooring people won't do it for safety reasons! our floor is too thin already - our house was thrown up to house railway workers in the 1890's and the floorboards are thin and poor quality.  Already sanded, to sand them more would make them too thin and dangerous.  Shame.  And they need fixing.  So we are going to have to carpet it or paint downstairs.

Am thinking we may carpet upstairs.  I kind of like carpet in a bedroom.  Anyway.  thinking of that.

Yesterday I had a morning of doing bugger all.  Very nice.  I really wanted to spend the WHOLE day doing bugger all.  But that is hard to do.  Plus this week we have the carpet fitter coming and I need to get the back room sorted.  So I pulled up the old underlay and hoovered in there.  And I also put up the ikea Billy shelves and got rid of the old hideous broken book shelf in the main bedroom.  Getting there slowly slowly.  Am overwhelmed by all the stuff we have still.  Its so hard to be minimal.  A lot of paintings went up into the loft.  I would like to sell paintings so that I can do more.  Storing paintings is a thing.

I am pleased with the progress though this year.  The kitchen is done, the back room is in progress, the garden is on its way too.  Ah - design the shed.  Need to do that.  I am thinking a tall narrow shed, with room to store bicycles if need be.  Not that we ride bicycles.  But still.  Storage space for the art stuff is needed.

pay for dance camp east.  get a printer sorted today.  B&Q for paint, undercoat for woodwork.  oil based paint for woodwork.  all that stuff.