WELCOME Page Good moods never last long
I started to put this page together on the 5th October, right in the middle of that lovely hot spell. By the time you read this, we will be at the start of November and no doubt having our usual grey, damp and chilly November weather. But as I say, I'm enjoying the good times at the moment. Warm (but not too hot) weather always puts me in a good mood. So much so that when my good lady wife asked “When is this shower rail and curtain going to be put up, I’ve been asking for the last three and a half years?” I decided that I would do it that day. What prompted me into action, apart from the good weather was her comment, “I’ll pay someone else to put it up if you don’t”. I thought that it would take no more than two hours and then the rest of the day would
be mine. I said I’d do it as part of her birthday present; that comment did push things a little too far, so learn from my mistake. Ready to start the job, I spent the first 45 minutes looking for my drill, only to then remember I had lent it to the neighbour some three months earlier. By the time I actually got started, I wasn’t in the best of moods and just to add to this,
a bathroom tile cracked as I was drilling through it. I keep a few spare tiles in case of just such an accident but it did mean a 12 mile round trip into town to get tile adhesive. That added yet another one hour and ten minutes to the job, so there’s the two hours gone I thought the job would take and I’d got nowhere. I’ll cut the story short as most of us DIY blokes have been down this road. I need only tell
you that the job took two days; the shower curtain rail never got put up because I accidently broke it because it was in my way, and ended up buying a new one to replace it. Its now the 10th October and I’m just finishing off this piece. The weather plays a big
part in my life and I feel grieved to have missed those last few hot days stuck indoors working, with just the winter to look forward to. Looking though the window at the next grey cloud to pass, I spotted next door’s cat digging up my newly seeded grass patch so he could leave a present there. I quite like cats so when I took aim with a small brick at the cat, well it was more a stone than a brick (I don’t want the RSPCA on my back), I lopped rather than threw the small stone. As the stone went though the air, I could see it was going to miss the cat by a long way. The cat just stared at me with a look of disdain as the stone took an unwelcome bounce and hit my greenhouse. I'm off into town now to get a few spare sheets of glass. This job should only take a couple of hours……
ISSUE 132 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 Sign Update 5
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