
In the stupid hail storm in January some plastic panels on my garage roof were damaged. Unfortunately, their repair is taking forever because: insurance company, rain preventing builders and now stupid pandemic. Even more unfortunately some heavy rain has got into the garage and ruined some cushions stored in there, some old framed art and some suitcases. The mould is impossible to remove from the cushions so I have dumped them all at the tip but brought everything inside so today has been rearranging the linen cupboard to fit stuff in (suitable washed and dried, I'm not a complete savage.)
I did not sleep well last night and had a dark night of the soul. I did not want to get out of bed this morning but did lever myself out before 8 and walked the dog and everything felt better. I then went to Coles for an early shop and was rewarded with a 12 pack of loo roll which is just as well as we were down to our last 3. I should also celebrate the kid got the vacuum cleaner out without any passive aggressive sighing on my part so things are not so bad.
I spent most of the day in domestic pottering but we have made coffee ice cream for our choc tops. I ended up just buying waffle cones as I have lost my crepe pan somewhere in the last 3 years and could not be arsed trying to do it in my rubbish frying pan and had no intention of spending $$$ on a new one. I am making steak frites for dinner and even scored some tarragon to make béarnaise so we will be well fed.
We also redid the gallery wall a couple of weeks ago and it pleases me much more. The airconditioner is ugly in what is already a room with a low ceiling but the smaller pictures are an improvement. I also put in a bigger rug which works so much better and changed up the cushions. I bought the matryoshka years ago on a visit to Warsaw. The iron curtain had only just come down and my then brother in law had been posted there to open a western bank. I recall the food was terrible, there were armed guards who came every night to sleep in his basement and we lost our luggage on the way over. I did buy some beautiful krosno glasses, this matryoshka and a cathedral made entirely of sweet wrappers.
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