Thursday 15 April:

I didn’t go walking this morning because I was ‘focussed’ (well, almost!) on undertaking some really awkward jobs – which I certainly wasn’t looking forward to.

So, got everything sorted (in terms of preparation) first thing over breakfast… then stopped for coffee with Moira.

The first job involved pulling a very small part of a ceiling down in the basement (adjacent the entrance door) and trying to tidy things up. Well, it now looks a bit neater (ie. the ceiling isn’t hanging down), but it’s hardly brilliant… and I ended up covering the ‘gap’ with chipboard. Hey ho!

I then spent the rest of the morning and the first part of the afternoon ‘sorting out’ the basement understairs cupboard – which had become absolutely full of a variety of stuff (timber, boxes, various tools and miscellaneous bits that didn’t have a home (made doubly-difficult by the narrowness of the space). Well, let’s just say that I made a lot of headway… it’s far from perfect, but it’s a huge improvement.

Later, I also sorted out my two boxes of stuff in the bathroom (old razors, after-shave etc).

By the end of it all, I felt pretty tired and so decided to watch some old film on iPlayer… and, of course, the only category that wasn’t working appeared to be ‘films’!! So, I ended up watching an old Lucy Worsley crime documentary… after which I discovered that the film link was ‘back’, so watched the first half of ‘Red Joan’ (2019).

Moira had another appointment at the ‘hearing hospital’ in the late afternoon – which seemed to go fine.

Evening telly: nothing on… and went to bed reasonably early to read Kate Atkinson’s ‘Big Sky’.

Image: Dad’s old RAF toolbox (from the understairs cupboard).