After rain and more rain I have finally managed between the showers of rain to put two of three coats of paint on the gable end of the house. The colour caused a mild controversy as I was the one to pick the colour “Antique White” which is not quite white but is near enough in a creamy non-white sort of way. Anyway all concerned are satisfied with the results so far, one coat to go….
The wasps are in full swing and my tally of kills is in 3 figures, while up at the top of a ladder painting I had to make several timed swings with my brush in a batting motion that any Chinese table tennis player would have been proud of to remove inquisitive and aggressive bastard wasps. The swinging of arms or legs is generally not encouraged as a clever activity when one is twenty feet (just over 6 metres for the SI readers) up in the air on a ladder at a steep angle, so I had to develop a wrist action and hold steely nerves in order to bat wasp heads at close range, anyway I have another days painting and flying stings to get through before I say my method is perfected.
With the persistence of a Jehovah witness the neighbours child comes to the door on a several times a day basis wanting to play with the kids, mealtimes, early in the morning late at night, the persistence is inexorable like the passage of time as the mole (God rest his soul) used to say, he said plenty other stuff but thats another days blogging. She was even able to report on which visitors had come to us late one evening long after our kids had gone to sleep, maybe she wants to move in.
Less than a week to go before I join my ship again, just in time to miss the climax of the Swedish election campaign, a low key affair where the politicians do a good job of convincing people that they are telling the truth about how great the place will be as long as they get elected only for everybody to be surprised and dismayed when they realise that not much really changes and election promises are as good as chocolate kettles.
One party called the Moderates, which is the right wing party so they are far from moderate has promised plenty and done more u-turns than a confused taxi driver and have gone into an alliance with 3 other right wing parties big surprise, they have said everything to win votes including free beer, ok they didn’t say that but I won’t be surprised if they do. The current government the social democrats have said they need more time to get things right, we all need more time…….I will be voting anyway tomorrow at one of the early voting stations, because if you don’t vote you can’t complain.
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