I like blogs with pics best ...

I get bored when I only see words - blah blah, who cares, bring on the pics !

Today's pic is one of a few prints I recently framed - a calendar we picked up in Italy that was too nice to bin after the year was done. Had all these old frames laying around, many with my own dubious artwork in them, so a new lease of life and voila ! - cheap decorating problem solved. In this instance is was a case of too much wall, and too short vases.

Thanks to my old workplace for the free backing paper, not that they know or care that I took it, probably ... it was a discontinued line anyway :)

In other news, my cheap Ebay dishwasher replacement scam may end up being a bit more exxy than first thought when AB cracked a pipe ( or something ) this morning trying to disconnect ours. The Plumber was really nice, and ended up doing the entire swapover. He'll be sending us the bill ... *sigh*

Little things

Yesterday I pulled some weeds, and shaped/trimmed my agapantha. Today, i'm cleaning inside windows with rags and Windex. They look great, but it's a bit of an annoying job, as I know when we Karcher (TM ) the house, bits of loose dirt and water will get inside the sills and render my work useless and i'll have to do it all over.

Still, there's not a whole lot I can do at the moment. AB still hasn't finished the bathroom due to long hours at work, so I can't regrout in there until he's done. I've stripped the oven and cooktop, including the overhead vent thingie, and they're in the dishwasher right now, along with the sucky air-vent thingy from the bathroom. Does anyone even look at this stuff when buying a house ? I dunno, but it makes me feel better to tend to it.

What can be boxed up is boxed up.. what else ??

Um, our Lawnmowing Man is MIA, and the lawn is shabby. I also want him to shape some of the bigger shrubs etc that might have spidies in them, so I don't want to touch them .. I hope he comes early next week as I either lost or packed away his phone number, and it seems he's not listed with Tel$tra. d'oh. With my luck, he'll come on Monday morn when i'm at Playgroup ( but at least the lawn will be done .. )