We thought we'd have a proper competition to paint them - you know, take one each, get properly creative with the paints, then run an online competition with voting and all that to decide who won.
And we have a new paint colour. As Ronseal Willow covers so well and is so easy to use when we needed a white for the outside loo door, we bought some Ronseal Daisy online. However, where Ronseal Willow is well behaved and does what it's told, Ronseal Daisy appears to be the naughty younger sister who does NOT do what she's told. On the loo door we used undercoat and primer then FOUR coats of Daisy and it's still streaky. Hmph.
At which point we realised that painting the bedside tables with Daisy and getting creative would be a lot of work so....
... we painted them Ronseal Willow instead...
They are vastly improved by the addition of a black labrador...
She's finding all this painting a bit boring and sits looking longingly at the stables next door like a poor hard done by orphan dog...
Because we didn't think we were busy enough we also cleared rubbish hawthorn bushes from a wall and discovered the trees underneath actually looked like trees. By the time we finished it was almost dark - which led to a rather lovely picture.
At the end of the week BOB* came round and we've agreed that he and a digger driver can widen the drive, create a hard standing area for materials and help dismantle the old tin shed. And then we talked about taking up the floors inside the house to fill in the hard standing and, if he's got the digger here, why not dig out for the extension footings too... Ooh, that's, like, actual building! He's starting on FRIDAY! We need to move out...
The rental cottage doesn't have a lot of coat hooks, picture hooks or anything that resembles decorative features, so we're going to need to get creative again. So...
... can you tell what it is yet?
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