10.05.2026 New doors!

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 Sunday 10th 60F/10C [8.00] Overcast with possible light showers.

 Up from 2-5am after an hour of wakefulness. Back to bed until 6.30.

 8.15 I have had a message from the carpenter. He will be late. By half an hour. 

 12.45 He has both doors installed and is now sealing around the edges. You couldn't ask for a more helpful, friendly, careful, knowledgeable, fastidious and skilled worker. He left at 13.00. Great job!

 I need to buy some pressure treated timber. To seal the gaps at the tops and bottoms of the doors. Until the walls had been cleared of their existing construction it was impossible to guess what might be needed. He will then return to finish caulking them.

 It is Sunday so no timber stockist is open. The new doors look so smart they make the rest of Chez Hovel look even more shabby! White paint in place of the cream I think. With new black paint for the timber framing.

 It was dry and sunny all day after the early cloud had cleared. 

 18.30  I am going to make a Sunday dinner. Baked chicken, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and gravy.  

 I have emptied the indoor containers and taken the recycling bin along the drive.   

Dinner was perfect. 40 minutes in the oven at 200C. The roast potatoes were fluffy inside. The chicken beautifully tender after a rest. 

 

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