Jack had been nagging me for a couple of days to mow the lawn, so I finally got off my arse yesterday & did. Well… Jack did… I felt a bit like the gardeners assistant. Whenever tried to do something like use the mower or rake up some grass I would have one of them complaining at me & wanting to do it themselves. We used a hover mower that has a ‘safe blade’ (a nylon thread rather that a blade) & it has made me realise that this is all I can have. Anything else would be too dangerous. I did draw the line at either of them using the edge trimmers – which are somewhere between a pair of secateurs & scissors. Lawn tidy now anyway & it kept them busy & me occupied.
Louise & I had a good talk about the attic again the other day. Louise is concerned at the lack of progress again, but Jack was fighting the inevitability of sleep last week, so half an hour seemed to be a little pointless. Louise has now said that she will join in & we will both try to spend half an hour in the evenings, so in theory that puts in, at least an hour in the evenings between us, which seems more worthwhile. We’ve done some all important tidying & sorting up there – so we have a couple more ‘charity’ bags that we need to donate to the recycling thing in town. This is one of the points where we wish we had a car – to be able to take stuff to the dump or recycling in one big lot – rather than me lump it into town bit by bit. Also a major change of plan; Louise says that as there is possible staining on the plaster due to the leaks in the roof. These are taking an age to dry out due to the fact that the chimneys are so silicone sealed now that they stonework is no longer porous. Hey ho. So it’s paint the plaster now… & I have to think about colour again & what we should use etc. I scrap the present colour scheme & try to rethink, but I end up in confusion. We shall see… I’m going to by the paint tomorrow…
On the tech geek side… if I get time I’ll try to get my emate & mac communicating via ethernet. I have a working ethernet card off ebay now – cooo! Now then – how do I get it working?