renovating

It has been a busy week of house related activity this week. The weather is noticably warmer after some of the chills from last week so it is certainly more conducive to getting out and active. I have been caulking the gaps between the kitchen floors and repaining the french doors at the front of the house. It has made a huge difference to the front of the house and looks really clean and fresh. I painted the doors white with a charcoal trim so it makes the white really stand out.

It has been nice to settle into the holidays well and we have been out for a few lunches and dinners to remind ourselves that we are actually taking a break. It has been good getting a few things done around the house too though - there is never enough time to get through everything on weekends.

The only irritant today has been the people up the street who are again in band rehearsals, the main problem being that they are absolutely terrible and play really loud. There has been an impromptu meeting of a few neighbours around the street corner to have a bit of a complain, I think we are going to have to become the cranky neighbours who call police, they just never stop - every single day and night they are at it with microphones and amps. You can't escape it by closing windows or putting something on yourself - when did we get to this age?? I was thinking back to when I was a student and I dont think we ever played music so loud that people streets away would hear it (not that we would have had speakers good enough to anyway!!)

Merciful silence, they seem to have stopped for the moment.