Chores

29th June, 2008

Another lazy Sunday, well, for me at least.

Debbie asked me to fix the fence panel to the right-hand side of our house. The wooden slats had slipped from their possitions and fallen amongst the climbing plants that used the fence panel for support. So, I sized-up the job: what materials and tools would I need and how would I approach it?

But then Tom (my son) collared me and we drove over to the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, to the south of York, to have a coffee at Caffé Nerro. We listened to Messhugah’s ‘Nothing’ album as we drove there and back.

Pleasant distraction over, I began work on the fence panel. First, I deconstructed the panel. Then, I had to trim-back the climbing plants to allow me full access from either side. I carefully re-assembeled the panel, carefully wood-gluing and pinning the slats back into position. It was strangely satisfying to see something broken, reform into a neat, repaired state. Even if I say so mysef, it was a job well done.

I was on a ‘roll’. Because later that day, I replaced the damaged Vanetian blind in the bathroom. That was a frustratingly ‘fiddly’ job: cutting the Vanetian Blind’s upper and lower ‘frame’ with a Hack-Saw and then the tedious task of clipping the blind slats to length.

After a fabulous Macarroni Cheese that Debbie made, I went for a walk and got my step count up to 17,100.

Then, Tom and I went out for a drive. We headed north, through Strenshall and on towards Easingwold and back via Crayke. It had been raining quiet hard, earlier in the day but the evening had turned into a magical, summer’s evening. The light was perfect and I snapped a few photographs.

A Summer Evening

 

 

Once home, I began packing for my business trip to Vevey, in Switzerland.

~ by oldvillain on June 29, 2008.