Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Well, Shiney's just emptied his Cess Pit, Jiffy, so he's obviously sold it for a fortune!!!

 

I'll try and get 8.4 miles in this month

 

I walk 20 miles a day, in my mind, and I'm mentally worn out after it........so I have to recover with a quick snooze on the sofa .

 

I like Julia Bradbury...........but after watching her programs I always feel...........

 

I could make the effort, I suppose, Kandy, and try this........

 

I'm still in the midst of refurbishing the 4 Kitchen chairs and the Kitchen table. So today I applied the last coat of varnish to the fourth chair and to the table and have to wait another 24 hours to dry.........but they do look so much better
My wooden Kitchen cabinet doors caught my eye and I realised that they looked a bit tired as well. They're painted in a Fern green shade [Duluxe satin finish] and, knowing I was down to about an inch of it in the tin, I decided to take a trip to B&Q in the next town and get a new tin of the same colour paint. I also thought I'd pick up a new Kitchen wall light switch as it didn't work all that well [30 years old] from there as well. Do you ever have one of those days when you know things aren't going right
I took the old can of paint with me to B&Q with the reference number for ease of identifying it. Getting to the Paint Mixing Counter I asked the jovial Paint Guy if he could mix me another can of the same colour. He looked at the can, shook his head and said "no". When I asked why he explained that B&Q don't sell Duluxe paint anymore but use Valspar for main stock now. It appears that B&Q asked Duluxe to drop their prices and got a refusal so they swapped over to Valspar.
So, I decided to go for the nearest shade that Valspar had to the one to the on in the old Duluxe can. Between the Paint Guy and myself we managed to find a shade, when dry, identical to the old shade, and so I went for that. It only takes minutes to mix and while that was happening we spent time solving the world's problems.
Next was the wall light switch. Not a problem and I found one after a wander through the aisles.......great!! On getting home, I can't get on my driveway as my neighbour is moving house and there's a great big truck parked over both driveways. Into the House, after I've switched off the mains electricity, coat off, and determination to renew the light switch. It's a simple job, undo two screws, pull the switch out, undo the wire, new switch and attach the power wire, fix the switch to the wall.........Great!! Power on, press the switch.........and it doesn't move. The brand new switch is jammed. So I shut the main power off again, undo the switch, try it again........still jammed I had tested it in the packet while in the Store and it had worked So that meant another trip, into town, to Wilko's and another switch bought. Back home it took 2 minutes to replace the switch.........and it worked.........but an extra trip and more time spent when I could have been making a mug of tea.

 

Doesn't it make your arms ache?