Easter

Over the week-end our study was transformed!  After 20 years it was very tired and dull-looking, but now, it is beautifully fresh and sparkly thanks to my great daughter-in-law.  My son also did some rollering and the end result is superb.  Thank you.  There are two pictures further down which shows them hard at work.

Two of my grandsons decided to make chocolate eggs from the kits they had received.  They turned out fantastically well as you can see.

This is the door to the study with blue masking tape around the small panes - we realised that this door has spent the last 20 years with just the undercoat of paint!

Here is my son putting another coat on the walls.  Looks lovely now.

This is the end result of grandson number 4's egg.  I think you'll agree that it looks smashing.

And this is the finished work of art for grandson number 2.  He has done a great job!

Hope they taste as good as they look!

The on-going saga of the kitchen floor part 4

My lovely orchids

I thought I'd start by including a couple of pictures of the orchids which are sitting on my kitchen window sill.   They look really lovely and have been giving me pleasure for weeks on end.

I took them into the garden to photograph them.

And now the floor.  The new flooring company did a grand job and took such care with laying the tiles.  They look smashing and there is a picture of the study floor further down the page.

However, it was 5.45pm and the last strip was being placed over the tiles in the cloakroom and the woodblock floor in the hall when there was a shout - "FLOOD!'  The fitter had drilled into the mains pipe and the water was shooting straight upwards to the ceiling and flooding the floor.  You can see the hole he had drilled in the picture.

After a night when we couldn't flush the loos we managed to get a lovely plumber through our house insurance.  The insurance company wouldn't pay up but they gave us the number to call.  It took 3 and 1/2 hours to mend but this is what the result was.  And we could flush the loos again!

A neat job I think you'll agree.

The flooring company came six days later when the floor had dried out and finished the job.  The tiles were replaced and the woodblocks glued down.  So this is the finished floor.

The picture below shows the study floor finished.  It looks good and is waiting now for all the furniture to be put back again.  Unfortunately, the walls and woodwork look awful, after 20 years it needs some facelifting.  My lovely, and hugely talented daughter-in-law offered to re-decorate the room.  She has started and has filled the holes and cracks and has washed down with sugar soap, and has started to paint the ceiling.  It will make such a difference to the room.  

What lovely people we have in our family!!  Thank you for doing such a tedious job.