Elsewhere the house is in a similar level of chaos.
Yesterday I ventured outside for half an hour, and tried to shield my eyes from the shrivelled destruction littering the garden. Barely any flowers, plants dried up, soil bare and grey. Oh dear!
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This is the current state of our bedroom. I'm posting this so we can look back in a few weeks and laugh. However, the cladding (source of the wood, sawdust and tools covering the floor) is now finished (hooray!) and today we'll be making the room look more like a room again. We sleep up those steps, and each night is a perilous traversing of a sea of nails and wooden shards to get into bed. But no longer! We will sleep in (relative) comfort and luxury like normal people for a while. Elsewhere the house is in a similar level of chaos. But slowly we make progress, although you might not think it from those pictures. I'm in a flurry of painting at the minute, and it's actually starting to make a difference to how the place looks. Yesterday I ventured outside for half an hour, and tried to shield my eyes from the shrivelled destruction littering the garden. Barely any flowers, plants dried up, soil bare and grey. Oh dear! I'm going to get back out there again this afternoon and see what I can do to make it look better. I fear there's no hope for the apple tree, which after several years of growing and growing has finally managed to produce a couple of apples - which I have killed through lack of watering. I'm so cross! I grafted this tree myself and it was just a twig when I brought it home. I've nurtured it in a pot in the garden for about four years now, and finally, finally we get apples, and I cause them to die! Aarrgghh! I have fed and watered the tree but have no idea whether it will recover. Fingers crossed. There's still a little place to sit though, even if it is surrounded by Things That Need Doing. I ate both dinner and tea out there yesterday and started to rekindle my love for being outside in this little space. I just need to get out there a bit more often. Not right now though. I'm off back upstairs to paint the landing ceiling. Just as soon as I've finished this cup of tea.
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Mum
8/8/2016 12:49:52 pm
Don't worry about your apple tree, I saw on Countryfile Summer Diaries that you should pluck the first apples that are produced so that the energy goes into the growing of the tree ready for the next year. So you have (accidently) done the right thing!
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