Yesterday can be summed up as a battle of Mum versus the Venetian blind. You can probably guess she\u2019s still decorating the kitchen. She\u2019s bought Venetian blinds in the same colour as the kitchen units. She simply had to put them up in front of the windows. You\u2019d think there wasn\u2019t much that could go awry with that. You\u2019d be wrong. The battle lasted over two hours and that was just with the first blind and there\u2019s two of them. There was one point where she\u2019d drilled so many holes that we were starting to worry that the kitchen would fall down. That would have made the decorating a bit of a waste of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You cannot believe what a relief it was when she came out of the kitchen, covered in dust and paint, but smiling again. The worrying thing is that she ran out of time to do the second blind. She\u2019s hoping to do that today and we\u2019re hoping, for the sake of the structure of the kitchen, that she has learnt some of the lessons of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the bright side, if you\u2019ll pardon the pun, I am going to be helping to decide where to put the new solar lights. Mum says if we position them well they will help her to see where Shadow has wandered off to in the night when she goes out. Of course, that will only apply when it\u2019s a night after a sunny day. If the lights don\u2019t recharge then her logic might be flawed. She has at least learnt from earlier mistakes on this one. If you point the solar panel north, they don\u2019t recharge. If only her lessons were all as easy as that one. I suppose it would help if she thought about it in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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