Mostly Wet.

Lots of heavy rain today with the occasional bright spell.

A few small jobs got done today. First I fitted a new bulb in the oven. Pete had tried to do it but he wasn't able to bend down to see what he was doing. I'm more flexible and could get my head right inside the oven. (Good thing it's not a gas oven.) 

Then Pete gave me a hand with changing my study door handles. I'd tried to do it the other day when the shorter spindle arrived but then the handle wouldn't turn easily. I put the old handles back but there was still the same problem and I wondered if I'd damaged the mechanism. Pete gave it a spray with a specific lock lubricant and hey presto it worked. One more round glass object to satisfy my odd tastes.

Then I turned to some Christmas preparations. First I got all our cards ready to take to the Post Office and then I brought down the Christmas decorations ready to put them up on Monday. (I like to hold out until the 1st of December.) These are the decorations I keep in the cupboard above the coats not the overflow boxes up in the loft. I'm sure I could deck this place out like Santa's Grotto if I wanted. I tend to have an emotional attachment to 'stuff'' that reminds me of special times. How I loved being able to put up the biggest real tree possible in our sitting room at Dingles and our busy family Christmases. Perhaps because they were such a contrast to Christmases with just my mother.

While I was up the stepladder looking in the top cupboard I spotted some mould on the outer wall. Not much but of course I reached for the bleach spray and cleaned the wall thoroughly. Then, since I was already in the bleaching mood I cleaned the bottom edge of the floor to ceiling windows in the sitting room. Again there wasn't much mould but I don't like seeing even the faintest hint of black on the window frames. Grubbing around in the mud outside is one thing but I am compelled to get rid of any mould (or grease) I find indoors.

For some time now I've been looking for some curtain fabric I knew we brought with us from Dingles but without success. Then I found it when I was up in the loft. Washed and ironed I had hoped to use the very fine cream fabric to replace the curtain that goes across the middle section of our bedroom wardrobe. Unfortunately the cream fabric is too short. A shame.

My last job of the day was to carry on with searching for better priced flights to Crete. The Jet2 price has dropped from £1030 for both of us to £784 but by going with KLM and changing planes at Schiphol I can get tickets for just over £400. One stopover will be 8 hours and the other is less than 2. We can manage that. and Schiphol is supposed to be a really nice airport with lots of facilities.