Saturday

The painter arrived twock on 8am and set to with the finishing touches.. metal work like letter boxes and handles and the downpipe at the back.. all finished by 11am and the house looks very smart once more.  
The flowers were in my youngest daughters bedroom and she decided when she left that they would look nice in our bathroom. It was a lovely surprise to find them there. 
This evening our eldest will arrive to spend the night and head home to her boat with little Jasper tomorrow. 
We have enjoyed her antics over the past fortnight although she was not too happy about the clatters and the whistling from the painter this past week. I won't miss being presented with live and dead mice and chomped butterflies or piles of furball leavings like we found on our return last evening. 
Finally decided that I would prefer a dog who rolls in fox mess occasionally to a cat that brings and delivers presents for us to deal with.  At least we could wash the dog but endless carpet scrubbing is not my idea of fun any more!!!