Still Wet.

A little warmer and not quite as wet as yesterday but not the nicest of weather.

In the morning I had some shopping to do and while I was out I decided to pop into the Laura Ashley shop by Lidl's. With the colour scheme for the new kitchen being white walls and units with wooden counter tops and a pale green/blue splashback I thought that the L.A. duck egg blue might blend quite nicely. They were having a sale and some of the fabrics were half-price. I didn't have the splashback sample with me but took a chance and bought 2 metres  each of the polka dot oil cloth style fabric for the table and the leafy fabric to make cushion covers. It's not a perfect colour match though closer to the smaller sample which is the frosted version which we're having. 

The rest of my day has been spent working on the tv. unit. In theory it is done but I'm not happy with some of the joins and want to do a bit more work on them. I waxed the top section just to see how it will look and the pine has come up a beautiful golden shade. I think the proportions would have been better if it had all been lower but that would be too low for the tv. Peter looked at it and said that it was the right size for a really big tv. I don't think we need anything bigger.

A bit more from Borth.

On the Saturday I was up a ladder in the front garden when a chap came along and introduced himself. He was the nephew of the man who had lived in the place and he and his cousin had inherited Red Roofs jointly. He told us a lot about his uncle and is going to send us the eulogy he wrote which has a lot of details about his uncle's life. One interesting story was how his uncle came to be called Chick which was something we'd been wondering about. Chick had two older brothers both of whom ended up being called by the shortened versions of their given names. So his parents named him Roy as you can't really shorten that. Along came Granny to see the new baby and said "Oh what a little chick." And Chick he remained for the rest of his life. He and his wife along with another couple spent many holidays in Borth and they all agreed that on retirement they should try and find houses near to each other in Borth. Unfortunately Chick's wife died early but they still carried out their retirement plan. On looking for houses in Borth they came across Red Roofs which they decided to buy jointly the agreement being the last one alive got the house. That's why the utility room was set up as a second kitchen but they got on so well they shared the house. It's really nice to hear about the past residents. Chick spent 32 happy years in Borth and we hope that we'll be as fortunate.