Ellis

Dragged myself out of bed this morning and summoned up some motivation to tackle painting the stairs, a nightmare of a job balancing on scaffold planks between two ladders.

Sore wrists and back but that soon wore off as I got stuck in. Ellis was here today and kept me amused, he wanted to know all about painting and kept popping his head up the stairs shouting "good painting Ninnie". Got the ceiling done and the first coat on the walls, as well as all the cutting in. I'm sure paint doesn't cover like it used to its going to need a couple more coats.

Finished for the day around 8pm, shattered.

Spoke to Tom one of the new neighbours he had an accident at work yesterday he was cutting plasterboard and had just put a new blade in the knife, somehow he's ended up practically slicing his thumb off, he's had an operation today to join all his tendons back together, hes been told he will never lay another brick. He's all plasterd up and is due to have another op on Tuesday. Bless him he's getting married in 3 weeks time too.