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caddymanAh, it’s nice to feel all refreshed after just over a week away from the office. Especially since there appears to be very few people around today, my first day back. I’m not sure if this is a result of other people taking leave, or just the first signs of the teams disbanding.
Or both.
At the moment it’s quite pleasant, but I should imagine that it will become quite lonely around here if the number of colleagues in attendance declines much further. As far as I can see, very little has happened over the period I have been off: I have a heap of emails to look at, but in most cases I seem to have been simply copied in rather than being the prime addressee. The main feature of my job these days, and one which shows no immediate signs of slowing down is dealing with slews of letters from people who are pissed off with social rent rises. It’s all very tedious.
Anyway.
It was clear that we needed time off. In the first three days of the holiday we did nothing beyond sleep, eat, watch telly and play Warcrack. Of those activities sleep was the major time sink. I don’t think either of us realised just how tired we had become.
Having recharged our batteries, we did manage to finish redecorating the bedroom, as previously mentioned and on Sunday just past, we hung netting in there so we can, for the first time since we moved in, have daylight in the bedroom without people peering in from passing busses. I think the bedroom is now finished and it looks much better for the effort.
Work on the bathroom proceeds slowly. I have now filled and cemented the gap where we had removed four tiles and scraped out the soggy mess behind some weeks ago. I have also reapplied the tiles with luxurious amounts of adhesive, following Furtle’s Dad’s advice in the matter. Over the next few days we will be marking up and scoring those parts of the grouting that need attention before redoing much of the shower cubicle. Once that has been applied and has dried, it will be a good scrub of all the tiles with sugar soap to remove any accumulated grease, a removal of the old sealant and cleaning of the areas it covered. We have obtained a bottle of luridly blue meths for this, which seems to be the only way of removing it completely. The step after that it seems, is to reseal everything and then paint another sealant over everything, one that will enhance the colour of the tiles and then soak in and fill any cracks or holes with sealant. It seems that this is readily available in the US but hard to get over here for some reason. Happily Amazon do it.
So, house maintenance is on schedule. Next up, the garden and other things we did on our holidays.
Or both.
At the moment it’s quite pleasant, but I should imagine that it will become quite lonely around here if the number of colleagues in attendance declines much further. As far as I can see, very little has happened over the period I have been off: I have a heap of emails to look at, but in most cases I seem to have been simply copied in rather than being the prime addressee. The main feature of my job these days, and one which shows no immediate signs of slowing down is dealing with slews of letters from people who are pissed off with social rent rises. It’s all very tedious.
Anyway.
It was clear that we needed time off. In the first three days of the holiday we did nothing beyond sleep, eat, watch telly and play Warcrack. Of those activities sleep was the major time sink. I don’t think either of us realised just how tired we had become.
Having recharged our batteries, we did manage to finish redecorating the bedroom, as previously mentioned and on Sunday just past, we hung netting in there so we can, for the first time since we moved in, have daylight in the bedroom without people peering in from passing busses. I think the bedroom is now finished and it looks much better for the effort.
Work on the bathroom proceeds slowly. I have now filled and cemented the gap where we had removed four tiles and scraped out the soggy mess behind some weeks ago. I have also reapplied the tiles with luxurious amounts of adhesive, following Furtle’s Dad’s advice in the matter. Over the next few days we will be marking up and scoring those parts of the grouting that need attention before redoing much of the shower cubicle. Once that has been applied and has dried, it will be a good scrub of all the tiles with sugar soap to remove any accumulated grease, a removal of the old sealant and cleaning of the areas it covered. We have obtained a bottle of luridly blue meths for this, which seems to be the only way of removing it completely. The step after that it seems, is to reseal everything and then paint another sealant over everything, one that will enhance the colour of the tiles and then soak in and fill any cracks or holes with sealant. It seems that this is readily available in the US but hard to get over here for some reason. Happily Amazon do it.
So, house maintenance is on schedule. Next up, the garden and other things we did on our holidays.
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