Yeay – they’ve come to do the roof around the chimney again – Louise called to let me know (& that she was getting a haircut).
Hopefully the wall will dry out up there now. Louise said that they reported that when they took the lead flushing up they found that it was damp underneath – so it looks likely that this is where the fault lies… Possibly some previous shoddy workmanship disturbed by the general work we’ve had done in the attic.
I’ve started doing a little more work up there on an evening, so I expect that I’ll be slowing up with regard to updating ZUM! as much as I’d like to & sorting out other aspects of the site I want to mess about with.
Hey ho. Jut been stripping the final bits of paper from the beams & making a start getting manky paint off the skirting board. Hattie came & put the radiator back on the wall yesterday. Neat job – the copper pipes bend into the radiator very nicely – no heat burnish on the copper either – pretty. Same the radiator is an old one of ours that a previous foolish owner of the house has put another layer of paint on – but can’t be choosers.
Jack came out of school unhappy on Monday complaining that he had been bumped a lot… Odd. Apparently he did yesterday at school – he mentioned that he was being bumped when he was ‘playing out’ – playtime. He was generally in a good mood yesterday evening, but a little tired & on a short fuse. Eve was playing with a jigsaw with Louise’s mum & Jack wanted to join in, or take some of it & was refused a couple of times – so he got mad & threw jigsaw around the room & jumped on the box. Eve cried & Louise’s mum was probably quite shocked as I don’t think she was ever seen him do such a thing. Louise, as we have learnt best, did not confront him there & then, but left him to it – he ran out of steam quickly & was helping to clear up moment later.
I got similar when I was trying to get him out of the bath, except he was intent on getting me wet – so I left the room & closed the door, leaving him for a couple of minutes. When I went back he was out of the bath (the water had drained away) with his towel around himself & had got his toothbrush down & even put the toothbrush on himself. Very good.
Louise is to mention the bumping thing at school today – so we will see how that went…