Today: John came round and did stuff in the shower room. Earlier in the week he had put a surface over the plaster to make the tiles adhere. Today the tiles have been stuck back on the bottom right. As a payment he got my old gas fire, for which my front room is not adequately ventilated. And anyway the fire is too small for the fireplace.
Jimmy sugar soaped the ceiling and walls in the front room and undercoated the window frame. I did masses of chucking out of paper, brewed tea for the boys, washed the ceramics and took all the ornaments etc upstairs. I, sadly, threw out a blue and green glass candlestick which had been a 30th birthday present but is cracked beyond redemption.
I found my six metres swimming certificate from 1975 and a 25 yards certificate from 1977. I refuse believe that Altrincham Leisure Centre has a yards pool. I was short-changed by Trafford. Also found my Brownie enrolment certificate.
(Never a dull moment at Gert's cottage).
Also trimmed and swept up a binbag full of detritus from the bottom left corner of garden and replaced it with two enormous exterior candles retrieved from a skip in Chelsea by John.
