Got home tonight and although it had rained Sunday and again, Bank Holiday Monday I was desperate to mow the lawns for the first time this year, so got the strimmer out  first and after 30 seconds it ran out of wire. After recharging the spool and reinstating it, I cut the edges back before getting out the mower not confident it would start having stood since September untouched.

I needn’t have worried it started third time and the lawns were mowed, the best bit was that as I cracked open a beer and surveyed my work it started to rain…a win for me but jeez enough with the rain!

As discussed Jamie and I decided that making the existing bathroom, which is looking old and tired (a bit like me!) with a plan to do it properly in 18 months when we will hopefully be “debt free”

So today I salvaged some of the old tiles that fell off the walls and reattached them to form a row along the length of the tub and also made and fitted a bath panel.

My plan is to create the same panel effect  to box in the pipework behind the sink and toilet Mommy is going to paint them I will paint the ceiling and paper the rest of the wall above the row of tiles. All this should make the bathroom good for at least the time it takes us to pay off the loan a credit card and then hopefully our ‘disposable income’ will allow us to save and replace the bathroom and decorate it properly?

It rains all the time right now so when Jamie said should we take Billy together this morning and the sun was out I thought let’s go. We called for breakfast in town meandered along the canal towards home and although muddy had a wonderful morning.

As we arrived Ed home and sat in the kitchen removing our boots the heavens opened and it was torrential, we missed it by minutes

Now that’s a Good Friday!

Humbling!

“I’m waiting outside” came the reply as I sat waiting in a layby about a half a mile from Crewe station so it wasn’t long before I pulled in to the rank to collect a very green Jamie!

Apparently travel sick for the last half of her journey I was asked to drive gently, which is not possible on Britain’s roads today because the potholes are very similar to speed bumps. By the time we got home she crawled onto the couch and lay still for and hour until the motion sickness subsided, and she could be home properly.

It’s great to have her back but she definitely needs to take a travel sickness pill before every train journey from now on!