I'm afraid the photo experiment hasn't really happened so that is now on hold.
On Friday we went to look at buying a new front door. We have to have one as the weather comes straight across the fields & batters the front of our house. We have decided to get a solid oak door as it will look right in our house. Anyway we drove for over an hour to south of Bury St Edmunds to a place we had heard of. The doors were beautiful & we came away with loads of brochures & a price list. When we got home I worked out the cost which scarily came to over £1000. The better half felt this was well over our budget so went online & did some research. Suffice to say he has found a door with all the bits for about £500. So I think that is what we will go for.
We had our first visitors this weekend, very exciting. They are our good friends from Essex who plan to move this way themselves in the next few years. J had a look at our heating system & he is going to work out a way for all of our guests to be able to shower at the same time( but not together!) without the hot water running out. C is a very keen & good gardener & has great plans for our large & quite empty garden. They are staying for Christmas & she hopes to have sketched out some ideas by then. There are quite a few criteria, parking for guests, veg patch, room for chickens, & relocating the swimming pool. Let alone any flower beds.
The farm just down the road sells fantastic veg & I had bought Brussel tops for Sat lunch & a cabbage & brussel stalk for the week. J&C decided they would also like some, so on the way back from the pub we stopped & bought a cauli & a brussel stalk. After they had left Sat night, I asked the better half where he had put the veg for the week(because I always blame him when things go missing!) Having not moved it we realized that J had mistakenly taken them. Nevermind I thought I will buy more on Sunday for tea, but of course they were shut. So J&C have double veg & we have none!
Today was the Lions Christmas Fayre in Halesworth. We went down with a view to finding all the Christmas presents, & we did! What a result, so much more pleasant than trawling along Oxford St. And this afternoon I have written all my Christmas cards & included change of address thus saving on postage.I feel so righteous.
Tomorrow is decorating day. One of the bedrooms is a very pleasant shade of purple but it is a bit overwhelming on wall & ceiling as well as the carpet being the same colour. So it has to go.
Time to call it a night so night night.