What a Week!

Well, I don't know how I survived last week as it was one of those full-on working flat out weeks that turn up now and again.  I started tired, and ended up exhausted, but that's par for the course I guess.  Most of the jobs here on the house are now done - just one final deep-clean on the last few rooms and of course, there is always gardening to be done.  One of the tiring jobs was scrubbing the kitchen floor down in what was mum's flat - it's flagstones and even when scrubbed clean they still look grubby, so it was necessary to lightly oil them with Danish oil.  Then I got on to washing and polishing 3 wooden floors which had gotten dried-out and dull.  Now they are all gleaming and look so much better.  I have the downstairs bathroom floor, and hall floors to do now.

Yesterday I made the mistake of washing my hair first thing as in the afternoon I ended up remixing and repainting the limewash I could reach on the house wall overlooking the yard which really gets the weather.  I could only go up so far, but it's covered again now and I can't face going any higher with it (it needs scaffolding to do it all the way up).  Needless to say, my nice clean hair got well splashed with limewash . . .

Today is empty a stable/move boxes of stock from Junk Room day.   That should be fun . . .

At the weekend we had two back-to-back Fairs, which is always tiring.  Here are a few pictures from Sunday's Militaria Fair in Brecon.  Above - a house that was on the market recently and which we would have viewed, had we had an offer on ours.  It's now sold.

Next door is an ultra-modern house, set well above the road level and boasting a beautiful white Wisteria.

Finally - a few bikers visiting the town (they came round the Fair).

I have taken to sitting in the garden after tea.  It is so peaceful and I noticed that my pink and yellow Aquilegia (in a pot) has now decided to put out the can-can variety of flower on the same stem as the single flowers.  Isn't that pretty?

A view across the main pond - lovely irises with a perennial wallflower (Erysimum) behind it.  This has flowered through the winter too.

Yesteray morning we went down to Porthcawl to meet up with a Facebook friend (we used to be on a forum together too).    We've been trying to meet up for ages but the fates conspired against us.  Gail and her daughter and grandson are staying in a lovely holiday camp at Porthcawl, which is only about 45 minutes' drive from here, so we finally got to meet and had a lovely morning.

The last time I went to Porthcawl it was to a car boot sale up in the town and that was about 20 years ago!  

Right, now I need to go and vote and then get back to the Junk Room of Doom!!