Thursday 11th Apr

I walked down to the library this morning and it was pleasant to be walking in the rain, not just because we haven’t had rain for a while, and I cut the grass yesterday, but because I like walking in the rain. It might even make my Julie Andrew’s list of my favourite things. Quiet morning at the library, but it lets me get on with some reading I need to get done. Sitting at home I find myself too easily distracted at times.

Pop in to see the folks on the way home for a cuppa and a catch-up, then its home for the cleaning. Following a quick whizz round with the duster, polish and vacuum, it’s onto the ironing; a house husbands work is never done it seems. When the eldest comes in from school I take her to the doctor’s where she needs to get vaccinations for her trip to Morocco. We see the nurse who deals with these, who turns out to be the Asthma nurse whom I saw recently with the youngest. To advise on which jabs are required she looked it up online! A nice lady and very helpful, but not necessarily expert advice in this case.

Mrs P has finished making curtains and linings for the lounge, as part of the grand DIY project, and so in the evening I get to help pulling them in to get them to the right length, then inserting a lot of curtain hooks. When it gets to putting hooks into the linings to connect them to the curtains we are bamboozled as to how to do it, and end up touring the house to find others with similar linings but to no avail. Eventually we figure out a fix and standing on a chair I eventually manage to get them hung up. Mrs P is glad they’re finished and up, and is pleased how they look with the new wallpaper. Personally I’m not sure they’re that different to what we had before, but what do I know.

Yours not considering a future in interior design.

Jay