Holiday plans, outings and activities!

Well good morning everyone! I hope that where you are is reasonably dry, cos here on the not-so-sunny South coast, its well raining! Today I did have plans to continue with my DIY activities but had a lie in, read my Bible and am going curtain shopping later instead!

DIY? I hear you ask! Yep. Currently, my room is stripped of all wallpaper (including the fiddly lil bits round the edges) and half the skirting has been sanded down. Last night I put this special glue stuff on the big holes in the wall that appeared when the wallpaper came off. Now all we need to do is sand the other half of the skirting - as well as the door frame and the inside of the door - fill in the holes properly, and we'll be ready to paint!
The paint is called Jasmine White (variation on cream). The redecoration project has cost me lots of money and benefitted Home Retail Group considerably with all of the visits to Argos and Homebase! It'll definately be worth it though! When the painting is all done, it'll just be the flat packs to put together: bed, wardrobe, bedside cabinet, desk, radiator cabinet and 3 bookcases. Plus there's floating shelves to put up and then everything to organise. But its going well and everything is in place.
The latest visit to Homebase means I have a new curtain pole, some special crack-filling paint for the ceiling, undercoat and gloss for the skirting/door/frame, masking tape so we don't paint on't carpet and some random bits of wood that cost me £2 that I may make in to extra shelves! Next time we need to buy the radiator cabinet - I'm really excited about that. :-)

In other news, Tom, Sarah and I are attempting to arrange a meet up for before we actually get on a plane together for a weeks holiday. Its not going well. Let's hope we make some progress there over the next few days. On the holiday front, I ordered and then collected, my 2000 kuna from the Post Office last week. It cost me £246.91. I do still need to actually buy my travel insurance, but I'll be doing it as ever with Insure and Go, so all I need to do is click a few buttons and it'll be done. Cool. Then before I know it, it'll be time to print our boarding passes off, find and put in a safe place the PMTs (passport, money, tickets) and then pack and travel to Sarah's.

Between then and now I have the "Tunes of Glory" Military Tatoo at the Ardingly Showground on September 4th. It features Hayley Westenra and Blake, as well as a fly over by a Battle of Britain spitfire, five major bands: HM Royal Marines, Gurkha Pipes, RBL Youth Band etc. So it starts at 1pm and takes about 2hrs each way, so we should get home around midnight! Gonna be an awesome day!!

So I will also get around to doing my Keswick blog sometime soon... Oh dear!
Anyway, enjoy the last days of August lovely people, and roll on September!