Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, stepup, did you get to the parkrun? Do come back and tell us all about it! :j :j

I did indeed make my hot water bottle deadline Might impose a similar one tonight

Had an EXCELLENT day playing a load of GIANT flutes :rotfl: Rather tempted by a contrabass one - a mere snip at £9500 :eek: :rotfl: That and a completely black stealth flute - practically a bargain at £2500 :rotfl: :rotfl:

Perhaps not Didn't buy a thing except my lunch in the end :rotfl:

I came in here to say something specific, and now I can't remember what it was... :rotfl:

Got a million things to do tonight though :eek: Got to drag five 4 stone bags of plaster out of the car - and I couldn't park outside our house so that'll be a right job from the end of the street :eek:

Ooh, hang on, someone's just left - back after I've moved the car!

Cheery_Daff

Oops, moved car then got distracted... not done any of the jobs yet!!

This'll make you laugh though... put some washing on this morning, couldn't find washing liquid. No surprise, moved so much stuff lately it could be anywhere. Squirted some stardrops and forgot about it.

Mr cheery took it out of machine, and I've finally got round to hanging it up.

Guess where the washing liquid was... yep, mr cheery had stashed it in the washing machine for safekeeping, I hadn't realised and shoved washing in on top - thought the washing machine was making some odd thuddding noises :eek:

Fortunately it didn't break - can you imagine the giant foamy mess?! :eek: suppose it might have cleaned the floor... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

rtandon27

Hee hee - that sounds like the kind of logic OH would apply when stashing things!!!

Cheery_Daff

It did make me laugh! :rotfl:

Started stripping the plaster, quite satisfying although I'm making a right old mess! :eek: seem to have stripped half the skin off my knuckles in the process :eek:

Karmacat

That made *me* laugh too :rotfl: though I suspect you'd have been waist high in foam :eek:

You were stripping the plaster at 10pm on a Saturday night? Respect, Cheery, respect to you! One day, I'll have nice new plaster

Cheery_Daff

I was indeed KC and in a fit of madness even sent a text to the woman on the radio show I was listening to (about te fact that I was doing the plastering) and she read it out :rotfl: :rotfl:

More stripping today, taking the wooden laths off now too :eek: not even sure I'll get round to the actual plasterinh

Karmacat

Blimey! What are you going to use to replace the laths? Those plaster sheets?

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: You were posting on my diary while I was posting you yours :rotfl:

Yep - went and bought a load of plasterboard from Wickes this morning Dead cheep actually, only £4.29 for a giant sheet - I got six - won't need that many for the landing but that gives me a bit of wiggle room and there's plenty of other plastering to do round here! :eek:

All plaster and wooden laths removed from one strip now :j :j Tis remarkable just how much mess there is :eek: :rotfl: We pinned sheets over all the doors (well, actually, there aren't any doors, so sheets over the door holes) - good job as it's going EVERYWHERE! :eek: They used to mix in coal dust round here as a bulking agent, so it's all black as well :eek: and I keep coming across clumps of horsehair which is quite disconcerting :eek: :rotfl:

Absolutely desperate to get the new stuff on today, but I'm going out at 5.20 so it's a race against the clock! :eek:

Giving myself til 2 to get the old stuff off, til 3 to tidy up the giant mess, get the plasterboard on and get my buckets etc prepared - which leaves me 2 hours to create a perfectly finished wall :rotfl:

Anyone want to place a bet :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Hmm, well it seems to be past 2pm and I've not yet finished getting the old stuff off :rotfl: Filled about 8 bags with ancient plaster though - we'll have to have a tip trip this week as the bin's already full and they're not taking it til next week! :eek: :rotfl:

Best get back to it I suppose... New deadline - old stuff off by 3pm and I'll just have to get a taxi to the meeting later :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: Have to laugh at my over optimism sometimes :rotfl: :rotfl:

Stopped at four - there's still an entire floor to ceiling strip of about 2 foot wide to get everything off :rotfl: SUCH a mess, but fortunately relatively easy to clear up thanks to dust sheets and a million bin liners

Shame I can't say the same for the rest of the house :rotfl:

Just having a restorative cuppa, and a slice of warm home made bread straight from the machine - VERY glad I had the foresight to put that on before I started :rotfl:

Then I'm going to start at the top with the hoover and make the place look as good as I possibly can in about 40 minutes.

Then I've got a tiny bit of time to make myself look slightly less like a chimney sweep :eek: :rotfl: