the house progresses

I have spent today mostly up a ladder. It's been at least a year since the last time I waxed lyrical about the wonders of Crown Breatheasy paint, but it hasn't become any the less wonderful in that time. Bearing in mind how sensitive I am to most volatile organic solvents, any emulsion paint that I can use without dying of asthma is pretty damn amazing in my book. The fact that the minimal VOC content also makes it rather environmentally-friendly, and that it's barely more expensive than plenty of lung-killing paints all adds up. Hooray.

I'm sure that other content exists, but I'm aching all over and I still have another wall to do. More tomorrow, possibly.

painting and politics

I knew I had more content yesterday.

So there I was, stirring up paint that had severely settled, and I had some lumpy bits to get rid of. Wandering into another room to grab some more newspaper to wipe it off on, I discovered that a Conservative Party election flyer had been put through our door, and David Cameron was grinning at me from the doormat. So I grabbed that and used it. Mr Cameron is now thoroughly pinked.

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I should also mention one of those funny if you know me things. I have a tendency to get distracted by anything with words on, including cereal packets and newspapers in languages I don't even speak. (Several times on trains elsewhere in Europe I've been reprimanded by Richard for reading someone else's Dutch newspaper over their shoulder.) This has led Richard to keep a couple of newspapers. Every time I finish painting, he collects up all the paper that's not completely saturated with paint. Thus I am now painting over news from last April. The advantage of this is that I have already read those pages about 20 times, so it's less distracting than fresh words. Hmmm.