Green dust and chocolate...

... but fortunately not together.

The woodwork in our house (skirting boards, door frames, banisters, etc) are a range of colours, mostly darkish brown downstairs and darkish green in the kitchen and upstairs. The green is a horrible colour and they are all really tatty (you can see bits of white, pink and purple), so I am on a mission to re-paint them white. This involves some sanding, currently I am working on the upstairs banisters, so sanding generates lots of nasty green dust which gets *everywhere*.

I've bought 676 chocolate bars this week, but they aren't all for me! They're for the caving expo in the summer. I bought them over three trips to the supermarket (so I could carry them home, and not buy all the shop had), I was kind of interested to see what the cashier would say each time. The first time she commented twice that I must really like chocolate, and when I said they weren't all for me, so looked quite unconvinced!

The second time, I got no comment at all on the chocolate, but the cashier seemed surprised that after putting through around 250 choc bars, the two "Healthy Balance" yoghurts were mine as well. I was very temped to say "well, you cant live on chocolate alone" but was too shy :)

The third time I got no comment at all which was rather dull. I think the cashier was still asleep.

Next I need to buy 250 packs of instant noodles...

Back from Cambridge

We finally got back from Cambridge on Tuesday, we ended up staying for over two weeks rather than the planned week, but we got lots more done. We:

*Replaced the rotten old front door with a nice new hardwood double glazed door with 5 lever lock
*Sanded down and painted the shed door
*Cut down the dead tree in the back garden, and got rid of all the wood
*Planted some new plants in its place
*Supported the fence
*Painted some of the fence
*Re-attached the back door frame
*Cleared lots of gunge out of the kitchen drainage

As well as some general gardening and cleaning, including the horrible job of removing the maggots that had accumulated in the kitchen waste bin. Yuck! At least the lodger should empty the bins more often now...