Painting, The House!

After many years of putting up with  peeling paint and dingy rooms we took the plunge and booked a house painter to repair and repaint most of the inside of our home. This meant that we had to clear 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, hallway, TV/sitting/dining room and worst of all my workroom. What a huge effort, but now after a month of work and with one day of painting left to go, it's all going to be worthwhile.

                                            Storing some of the 'stuff' from my workroom!

                   Stacking the video,TV and audio equipment, plus dining room furniture.

            This picture and the one below show stripping the wallpaper from one of the bedrooms.

                                         My temporary workroom in the freshly painted bedroom.

I rather like this room for a workroom actually, the light is good and I have plenty of room for those supplies that I put aside for use while the painting is underway. It's a pity I can't stay in this room!

More Metal.

Here are 2 very different metal birds, and they are in fact in 2 different countries, Australia and New Zealand.

How clever the makers are with conveying the wing feathers and the nest in such a hard material, metal!

Metal Monsters!

Everywhere I go I seem to spot metal animals and insects. I spied this goat in a local front garden the other day, and since then I've seen many more, especially in my photo collection. I was surprised at just how many metal creatures I have photographed over the years.

                         Here are a few for today and I'll post a few more over the coming days.

Especially for Her!

 We are having a bit of painting done in the house at the moment and John the painter leaves his drop cloths down and ladders up from one day to the next as he moves from room to room. Guess who thinks that the drop cloths are being left especially for her to make a comfortable nest in when John  goes home!