I've been so busy tweaking and twanging with my blog that I haven't reported on Lisbeth's progress on the house in England.
The good news is that the paint has arrived for the trellis. The bad news is that you can't apply it in low temperatures and the weather has just become colder with snow forecast for tomorrow. However, as the sun was out today, Lisbeth and her workman carried some panels round to the front of the house, which faces south, so that they could make a start after the ice had thawed.
The general consensus is that paint is looking good. It is a home mix of grey and white which makes a really nice pale grey colour (obviously) which changes shade (apparently) in different lights. However, the panels are of a lattice, criss-cross design and the wood has a finely ribbed surface. This means that the only way to get the paint on is by prodding it into the ribbed, criss-crossing slats, as opposed to using any kind of painting movement. That wouldn't be so bad in itself if it didn't take so long: It took one and a quarter hours for two of them to paint one side of one panel. If you do the maths, and Lisbeth has to do the rest on her own, you're looking at 5 hours per panel. There are eight panels and ten posts! Whose idea was it anyway?
Thank goodness I only have to write about it.
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