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Hello everybod peeps!
Today I have been mostly
Getting Plastered!
I've literally been plastering all day and all week so you can imagine there's not much energy left for bloggin'!
Yeah but no but, I've enrolled on a five day crash course in bonding, scrimming, trueing up and finishing a 3 metre square booth all to myself, which is your normal third bedroom or kitchen or whatever. Fortunately the East Sussex Plastering Academy(sic) is 40 minutes from Fay and Pete Hayes's place so I've got myself booked in there too at the Hotel Splendide, and have been getting my dinner cooked for me as well as being availed of first class ablutions for getting rid of the daily "Mr Pastry" hairstyle!

Rather cheekily, I took the opportunity while Fay was out shopping to completely gut the house, replaster it all and put everything back before she came in and she's not noticed anything amiss! I take that as a compliment to my new skills!

By the way you'll all be relieved that a month after her op, Fay's back to normal almost, chasing round and getting everybody organised. This week's challenge was to start driving again and she seems very happy back behind the wheel so that she offered to drive me to school and more importantly pick me up on the day I was due to do ceilings (as I was dreading the damage it would do to me reaching up all day) as well as facing the drive back.

The previous day's efforts almost put me in traction, which was sand and cement screeding an entire wall "hopping up" onto a milk-crate to do the top of the wall with a hawk full of muck!

Always handy to know a medic.. what what?

So who else is doing it? Well I'm the only student there with an HGV/Fine Art degree, as the other lads are mostly diy'ers and renovaters who can't find a decent plasterer.
Of course I'm really doing it because of the project I'm running with Gem and Will's Auntie Val, which is to do up a 3 bed terraced property in Woodford Essex. Val thinks I'm a bit handy but I really dreaded the idea of plastering an entire room which I thought warranted getting a bit of inside knowledge rather than learning on the job etc.
(And the 'Sold'sign went up today on 5 Mill Lane Woodford Essex hurrah!)

So Julian, got any walls mate?
I'm told plastering in France and Germany is done by hosing it on by machine and a team of lads flatten it down and do a house in a day.. imagine! I'll let you know when the package arrives mate cheers.

When selecting a skill to tackle I thought of the one which has the most knack for the least outlay, which has got to be your plaster at £3 a bag and a tenner's worth of tools.. and a couple of buckets. hey hey!

I could have saved a few quid by going to Charlie Carolli's plastering school but I think he's bit too sophisticated for me. love to all S