Wednesday
I went for a pleasant morning walk yesterday just as the sun was coming up. The usual photos will appear one day, no doubt. After that is was back home where the house is being painted. Our landlord has decided that the downstairs and the outside needed doing, and so we’re now yellow rather than peeling white. The decorator has done a quick job on the large outside walls but needed to come into our place to do some window recesses he can’t get the ladder outside because if the height and the steps. As he was hanging out of the living room window over a 15-foot drop, I thought I should ask his name, just in case… You know. Turns out, Napoleon is painting our house.
He’s not done the front yet, and we’re expecting him to come and put ladders on the balcony at some point, but today he’s downstairs doing other things instead. I did ask if he was doing the windows, and he said yes, but I’m not sure if that’s just the recesses or the woodwork and shutters, a good few of which need doing. He’s also not doing the courtyard apparently, so if the woodwork is done on the windows, the two that overlook the courtyard won’t get done and, I assume, neither will the doors. We will have to wait and see and take whatever comes, as is the way of life around here.
After that, I set about printing some documents for a thing I need only to find my printer playing up and telling me it can’t print. I left it alone, and ten minutes later it spluttered into life when least expected. Odd things going on there, but at least the docs came out. Anyway, that was a bit of a ramble after a ramble up the hill, and now I’m going to go and… Oh, not I’m not. The printer has started printing things I didn’t ask for, I’d better attend to that instead while I await the next advance from Napoleon.
