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Housely Renovations 2.3 - spiderwebs! O:!
OMG!
Behind the bookshelves, the sofa, the TV - great, grey, muslin-like swathes of cobwebs and huge dead spiders - it was like the Adams Family set back there! ::shudders dramatically::
So, we moved the furniture then followed an epic hoovering session for the aforementioned cobwebby crisis situation (I may have destroyed whole ecosystems, possibly new life forms. If so, I beg all the gods for forgiveness). The wallpaper we'd hoped to paint over turned out to be beyond saving - falling off in sheets in some places, so, tis gone. So the wretched state of the Victorian plaster has to be skimmed over, like in the spare room (see Housely Renovations 1).
So another trip to bloody B&Q was required for plaster-skim, filler and more sticky damp-proofing gunk.
Mark has filled the canyons between the skirting board and walls.
I have damp-gunked the bit by the door (4 walls still to do).
I've skimmed the big wall - three more to go.
Next up, more skimming, more filling, taking down the non-functioning picture lamps and fitting of new lamps and switches that work - you know, actually, give out light. (amazing!)
So now we're camped out in the bedroom, bathed and fed; wine is being drunk, kettle crisps are in the offing; Top Gear in on the telly - all is well.
Behind the bookshelves, the sofa, the TV - great, grey, muslin-like swathes of cobwebs and huge dead spiders - it was like the Adams Family set back there! ::shudders dramatically::
So, we moved the furniture then followed an epic hoovering session for the aforementioned cobwebby crisis situation (I may have destroyed whole ecosystems, possibly new life forms. If so, I beg all the gods for forgiveness). The wallpaper we'd hoped to paint over turned out to be beyond saving - falling off in sheets in some places, so, tis gone. So the wretched state of the Victorian plaster has to be skimmed over, like in the spare room (see Housely Renovations 1).
So another trip to bloody B&Q was required for plaster-skim, filler and more sticky damp-proofing gunk.
Mark has filled the canyons between the skirting board and walls.
I have damp-gunked the bit by the door (4 walls still to do).
I've skimmed the big wall - three more to go.
Next up, more skimming, more filling, taking down the non-functioning picture lamps and fitting of new lamps and switches that work - you know, actually, give out light. (amazing!)
So now we're camped out in the bedroom, bathed and fed; wine is being drunk, kettle crisps are in the offing; Top Gear in on the telly - all is well.
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Kettle Crisps... mmmm...
I can only concur. *g*
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Probably doesn't help at the moment - sorry.
But you were very brave dealing with the spiders and their webs!
Top Gear was fab as usual - now I'm watching Charley Boorman...
I love these trips they do
Enjoy the kettle chips and whatever accompaniments you have!
It will be worth it in the end.
Spiders hold no fear for me, the gunky, alien-like, potato glue damp-proofing wotsit - that's another thing altogether.
We're watching Charly Boorman too - linked across the miles. (o: The crisps are long gone alas, but very nice, indeed they were.
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Still making me tired. *g*
Go you! You sure deserve the Kettle Crisps and wine.
Oh, believe me...
I have wine, I can cope.
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And cheese??? =>}
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The kettle crispy were cheesy, does that count?
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It all sounds delicious!
The kettle crispy were cheesy, does that count?
Always!
For our dinner tonight, J. will bbq a teryaki roast with fresh sweet corn on the cob and with that we'll have tomatoes and cucumbers from our own garden. Yum! =>}
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Top Gear in on the telly... I cannot beLIEVE I got addicted to a car show (it's the sheer nonsense factor, I think. And James May, who's the most Utterly English person on TV since Jon Pertwee's Doctor))
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The last thing Top Gear is is a car show, imo. *g* I assume you know about the slash...?
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