Painting Day.

It's been mainly cloudy with some sunny spells today. While it was still windy it was nothing like yesterday's winds. In the afternoon I had a final burn up of the hedge cuttings and 2 old tea chests. To be on the safe side I created a sort of fence out of bigger branches pushed into the soil which I hoped would prevent any escape of burning branches and then towards the end I pushed them onto the fire. I did end up with quite a big bonfire but every time flames appeared I threw more green leafy branches on top. Lots of smoke but no flying embers. While I kept an eye on the fire as it burned down I used the bow saw to cut off a couple of branches from the tree trunks. It's a bit silly to do that when Vytas will be down at the end of the month but I do like getting things done.

My morning had been spent working indoors. I painted the new wooden boxing and while I was there with a paint roller in hand I also painted the ceiling. Then I wandered around painting bits of the kitchen that needed doing. As I had to paint the wall by the kitchen sink I took the opportunity to take down all my blue glass and give it a wash. In between all this washing and painting I made chocolate cup cakes for Peter to take to work tomorrow and some individual lemon drizzle cakes. Later I painted a second coat on the boxing.