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Saturday 27th November 2010
This time, however, the lay people of Zürich, the dioceses of Chur and Basel, the University of Basel, and the twelve members of the Confederation were also invited
 
Last weekend was a bit of a disaster. I hired this 'portable airless paint sprayer' (from HSS - where else?), M**** and A****** went to Cheltenham and R****** spent a bit of time with nanna-grandpa-with-the-two-cats. So, I had some time to myself. I was meant to be painting the hallway and the little box room thing, free of distractions. I got about two hours of painting done with this wretched paint spraying device before it kind of gave up on me, continuously losing pressure and spitting paint out in feeble little dribbles. Of course, had I started earlier I might have gone, "Ah well, might as well resort to brushes and rollers then." But no . . . Meanwhile, I've got paint on carpets (which we were intending to replace anyway), paint on the windows, paint on the bathroom lino, paint everywhere . . . All this week, in my spare time in the evening, I have been trying to catch up on the decorating, furiously priming and painting throughout the hallway and box room. I'm kind of getting there but it's getting to that point (i.e. nearly all the emulsion applied) where I need to start painting woodwork with that wretched gloss stuff. We've had to empty the box room, which has meant odd pieces of furniture lying around in odd parts of the house. Chest of drawers in the hallway? A****** and R****** have been sleeping in the same room (i.e. the box room WAS R******'s bedroom) but the excitement of that seems to have worn off now, with both of them usually waking up at about 07:30 every morning.
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