Week One hundred and nine

Week beginning 1st July 2024.

It’s Tuesday night and we have just arrived back on the bus, we have been in Edinburgh again for a variety of family reasons. It’s nice to get away and it’s nice to come home again.

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It’s Wednesday and we are back to working through our snagging list – Molly is caulking to fill gaps and doing a bit of plaster repair, Pete is gluing some strips of timber around the ventilation unit to tidy it up a bit and now we are both varnishing the tops of the mezzanine storage and also doing a bit more plaster repair.

Off to Oban now to pick up more caulk and a few other supplies so we can get on with the snagging list tomorrow. This final bit seems to be taking an age to complete.

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Thursday and, you guessed it, back on working through the snagging list – more varnishing, caulking, fixing the storage tops and retouching the plaster with paint. We fitted the second lot of coat hooks in the boot room and onto the back of the doors in the guest bedroom and shower room.

We’ve been to vote, our first time here and it looks like it is between the SNP and the Tories. We’ve no idea how this one will pan out.

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The SNP held the seat and we have a new government. Are things going to be any better or is it more of the same but with a different spin? We’ll find out soon enough.

We are off helping Molly’s sister Ishbel who is looking after her four grandchildren while her daughter is away in New York so that’s it for this week.

It is so slow and unrewarding at the moment doing all these piddly wee jobs and it seems to be taking for ever. Next week should be more rewarding as we are expecting our delivery of larch so we can finish the back of the mega-shed.