Cath Sullivan wrote (see)

Morning all.

That bread looks good, MoS.  Might have to take a trip to Booths and investigate.

Otherwise, it's more stripping. 

seeing as its quiet on here as everyone boogered off to the beacons here's something to cheer you up

boingey-boingey, wafty-wafty, tea, cakes, peeky-boo wafty boingey yay ......!

there....

you mean loike...

"ode to a small green lump of putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning....."

Mike fae Dundee (no to the fence) wrote (see)

No BB meet then Cath?

No, going climbing tomorrow and thought I ought to do something useful to my house today - although I seem to be doing this instead. Hmmm.

Wow, thanks ID - my weekend is complete now.  You've obviously got my heart's desire well and truly sussed.

Mike fae Dundee (no to the fence) wrote (see)

I always put domestic chores off till next week.

I'm fighting a losing battle against a crumbling house though. One of the most recent delights is the more or less constant stream of decades old grit, soot, dust and generall roof-space crap that is coming out of the gap where the wooden cladding (not put in by me) on my kitchen ceiling meets what passes for the walls.  I've decided that I need to do something about it. 

Stripping wallpaper is kind of counterproductive though because it the paper is actually holding the walls and ceiling in place in many of the rooms! It's all good fun.

I'm the worlds worst when it comes to 'house stuff'. For instance, the dimmer switch broke in my living-room about 5 years ago. I use spotlights anyway, so i can't be arsed putting in a new one. I'll do it if i ever sell the place!

Sounds like you have more than a broken dimmer switch to worry about though. Get a plasterer to do your ceiling.

Mike fae Dundee (no to the fence) wrote (see)

Sounds like you have more than a broken dimmer switch to worry about though. Get a plasterer to do your ceiling.

I will.  I was hoping I would get away without paying a plasterer with this room (unlike all the others) because the damage to the walls was fairly minor and I can do small repairs easily enough.  But the sagging, precarious ceiling is well beyond me.  I think it's just normal really for a house of this age - it's always been bodged in the past really (mostly not by me) and when you take any of the paper off the plaster tends to come with it (sometimes quite spectacularly).  I've managed to avoid taking the ceiling paper off in the dining room and living room, which was very lucky but most of the ceiling paper is/was in much less good nick upstairs so has to come off. 

Glad to hear that your ailments are better than they were, btw. 

Cheers Cath. I'm getting there. What i need now is a good, hard winter to enjoy!

It'll make up for my non-existant summer of hill time.

Hello folks. The family reunion is going great.

Which will mean more to some of you than the rest.

<enigmatic>

Excellent NPC!