Painting

Things are going to start happening on the barn next week, and Monday we are off to pick our new second-hand car up – so work on the shutters had to be halted so we could focus on clearing the barn to a point where they can demolish the old wooden ceiling/floor, revealing the open roof space. It is a bit overwhelming, as we know there will be a lot of mess. And we do have a lot of items set up in the space following our move. Ideally this is a job that would have been completed prior to our move, but lockdown got in the way.

But as I always say, let’s just break the task down into smaller tasks which then make it achievable – so that’s what we’ve done. It was a tough day of bulking stuff around, and we do have more to do tomorrow, but nothing we cannot get done.

We did have a very pleasant surprise arrive yesterday, which we hadn’t opened during the day as neither of us was clean enough to do the opening. A picture tube arrived from a colleague of Brian’s who he used to work with. Rosa is an artist (kerousel.com) and has very kindly sent us a beautiful numbered print of a piece of artwork she has produced. We both love it, and are looking forward to having it framed and finding a suitable place in our home. The light from the evening sun could not be better placed.