Ah well, another day of holiday down, one less day on the route to a return to Heck...

At least I managed to achieve stuff today, was actually a good day, and I don't say that often.

Now, for this to be the case when DIY was involved... even more amazing. The garage door needs painting so I had put aside today to sand it down and chip off some of the older flakier paint.

I have to say I wasn't worried, me and DIY get on like a house on fire...

...lots of screaming, alarm bells ringing and the potential of a trip to the A&E department...

I am a lot of things but good with my hands in a workman type way? Ohhhhh no... Less Handy Andy as much as Goddamn Dangerous Andy... but at least this didn't involve power tools, sharp implements or a gas powered welding torch (apologies again to the girl all those years back in D&T class, your hair did grow back...)

As it was a nice day I was instantly distracted by a short photo op around the nearby areas for Macro-worthy flora but actually got to work and sanded almost the whole thing down, with just the single tea and kitkat break...

Now I just need to do the painting without including the surround, the brickwork, next door's flowerboxes and their car...

Och, it'll be easy.

Wound down with a few more pics and a lovely little phone convo with Subbalicious while I was sat in a manky garden chair out in the back garden in some shade, hands free set on so I could carry on photographing the birds... :D

Course, to all silver linings there's a cloud and my Lappie went funny, messed up Skype and MSN and broke the cut and paste of my day's photos, losing a bundle in the process, although I've now bought a recovery prog and got them all back safe and sound!

So guess what I'm doing now... *opening Photoshop*