Bad night, I woke up at 1:30 when Hubby came to bed, got up about 2:30 and went downstairs to read, the cat brought a mouse in and was chasing it round the sitting room, I couldn’t be bothered to try and do anything with them so left her to it. Went back to bed and fell back asleep, probably around 3:30, woke at 5:30 and looked at the clock, then dozed off until the alarm went off at 6:30, switched it off but stayed in bed till 7:45. So, altogether, I probably didn’t have much less sleep than a normal night when I wake about 4:30-5, but it felt more disturbed.
Out in the village putting stuff on the parish noticeboards yesterday I bumped into one of the councillors, who kept me nattering, then told me to go home and ‘put my feet’ up. However, after getting home and having lunch, I knew that if I ‘put my feet up’ I would just end up getting cross with myself for not getting anything done, so I decided to tackle the redecorating in the downstairs loo, which has needed doing for months. I did it a couple of years ago (white top half, ‘amethyst’ bottom half with a border in between) and didn’t want to change it, but the damp has been coming through the walls, so it needed patching up. Only, I couldn’t get bog standard ‘white’ paint, all I could get in the damp resistant line was ‘soothing white’, which looks to me like a pale blue grey. So, did the ceiling and most of the top half of the walls in that. Then I had to tackle the damp areas, Hubby said, ‘It all has to come out and I will fill it’, but when I started poking it was so crumbly I didn’t know where to stop, there are a couple of huge areas where it is right back to the bricks, I think if I had kept going I could have pulled down the wall with my bare hands. Of course, most people would get a builder in to sort it out, but that would cost money, so is a no-no.