Lighting the Path Less Taken

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About three weeks ago
I took time off work
It was to resolve long term issues with our house
The previous owner had took out all the spindles
And replaced them with rough timber
Then covered it with latted wood
Then varnished it all
But never once in the process
Found a use for sand paper
So if you clipped it with a hand, you cut it
If a skirt caught it it pulled the material

So I took two days off work
And the heavens opened
The yard that contained all my tools
Turned into a swimming pool
All my wood got wet
And I had to find a way around the problem

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However, after two days, this is what I managed
It all still need paint stripping
Then colour waxing
So it looks as its still victorian

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Its a start

Hermie, you have done well!

Looks good Hermie ! I like the finished look better than the rough old barnwood look myself. Hate splinters LOL

Oh Hermie...so lovely, you're a wonder all round!

Very nice Hermie....but I thought it was going to be about waffles

I could not find the syrup q21

Waffle= to talk about everything and nothing

Gobbledygook
Flannel
Nonsense
Rubbish
Flimflam
Small talk
Blether

As its the factory's annual shutdown
I/We have been a roving
And this will finish with the usual
A tip to Scotland to see our god-Daughter
Where the phones are poor
And the Internet is poorer still

However, the other day we went to York
Not to see the old town
Not to see the castles
Not to set the many churches
But to see a train
A train that toured America between the wars
Was rushed back after the start of WWII
And stripped of all its streamlining
So that it could work for the war effort

Its touring days were over when its boiler certificate ran out
And now its so old they have decieded not to keep her running
So they deicieded to put her in the National Railway Museum
However, put her back as she was intended

http://www.nrm.org.uk/home/home.asp

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As Rowan gets up close and persomal with the Duchess of Hamilton
In her stunning 1930’s Art Deco restoration
Back to her original streamlined glory.

We had a great time
All my computer time was spent
Repairing the God-Daughters computer
It was lent out to help her teenager relations with exams
It came back with a changed anti-virus (two running together)
Every down load site available (music and video)
All messenger sites (the list goes on)
And a down load of dial up to fix it

Our God-Daughters mother was having treatment for bad chest pains
With all the drugs and sprays needed to control it
All tests proved negative, but she was already convinced her time was up
All the drug's were not working
Then it turned out that she had been camping two weeks before
At two in the morning she had had to reposition the tent extension
That took four to put up, back into position due to strong winds
Now her chest muscles are torn…naughty girl

So lots of TLC needed there
I got told off in a friendly manner
I sent a letter up a week before we went
Telling out God-Daughter to look after her mother
(How the hell did you know when I did not even tell my daughter?)
As she was not as well as she should be
Then the multitude of time over the days
That I finished her sentences and told her what she was looking for
And where it was, in a house that I do not live

She is a bit black and white and not a believer
However, I had her eyebrows raised many times
hehehe

I'm back and trying hard to catch up

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh welcome home darlin!

Sounds like quite the adventure and dontcha just love them raised eyebrows!

I shall add (name please) her to my nightly sending Hun. Been there done that and oh it does hurt and scares you to thinkin a heart attack yes..now she needs rest and mend with lots of the good stuff!

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