Progress has been made in the pink bedroom. The wallpaper STILL looks much darker than it is, due to the vagaries of the camera, but I love it and the paper is lovely to work with and hardly any loss with the pattern repeat for these short drops. I had to start at the "wrong end" of the wall because of the furniture at the other end.
However, the first thing to hit my stomach this morning were two Ibuprofen as my arthritic neck is complaining and running down across my shoulder from all the flat-out painting I've done. Tam arrived yesterday evening, for a 24 hour visit (working from home today) and I need to finish that end of the room before she leaves so she can help me put the furniture back in place.
We had roast lamb for tea last night - rarely do we have a roast and lamb is our favourite, so it was a treat.
I had to see the GP yesterday morning and have been put on blood pressure tablets (no surprise). I am hoping that I won't need to be on them forever, and that worry levels over Keith's health might calm down a bit. I have to have more blood tests taken in a fortnight too, including a fasting one for Cholesterol as mine's not been done for 3 years and it's meant to be done annually.
Another hit to the Blood Pressure was the arrival of a map from Green Gen Towy Usk mapping out the proposed route of PYLONS to take wind power from Radnor Forest to Pont Abraham, near Carmarthen. Blardy hell - the proposed route bad enough - clearly in sight across neighbouring farmland but the alternative route (the one not running right beside the holiday chalets at Caer Beris) would be within spitting distance of our house! There has been one meeting on the showground already. I shall be going to the next one, have signed the petition and everyone is up in arms about it - wherever it goes it would bean eyesore and a ruination of beautiful Welsh scenery. In this day and age, underground is the only way to go. They mention delivering "clean green energy" - but at what cost to the landscape and inhabitants? Of course they want pylons at a tenth of the cost of burying cable. There is already great opposition and the Countryside Alliance is against it, and the Campaign to Protect Rural Wales, and our MP will be hearing from me this week. Billy Blue Eyes - check the route, as it goes down through Hundred House too . . .
The alternative route appears to be not far behind the stables . . . This is the view from our bathroom window . . .
Anyway, one good thing is I have taken my DNA sample and it's in the post to Ancestry now. I have to wait 6 - 8 weeks for the results. I'm not good at waiting! Meanwhile, I am going great guns with my tree on Ancestry and have over 200 rellies on there now.
