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One of the worst things about regularly being ill for two, three or even four weeks at a time is getting restarted with my daily life. There's always stuff to do piled up, no matter how much Adam and the kids take over the daily running of the household, and it can feel a bit overwhelming.
The other thing that tends to happen that I totally overdo it because I can finally get off my butt and sort out all the things that have been looking at me accusingly all this time. I think today is one of those days and I need to be careful.
Still, I've scrubbed my kitchen, cleaned my kitchen window and repaired the cracks in the guttering by use of some duct tape, a cartridge of repair silicone and a ball-jointed bathroom-wall cleaner with a telescopic handle.
Proper bodging, that was, but it works surprisingly well. You spread the silicone on the sticky side of a strip of duct tape, lie it on the pad of the cleaner and apply carefully. Hold your breath that you got it on the right spot, and there you are!
It probably could have waited a bit longer, but on wet days that guttering wasn't just dripping, the water was pouring out of there making an astonishing amount of mess on the balcony. Plus, the constant drippy-splatty noise was driving me crazy.
So, result, but I'd better have a break and some lunch now.
The other thing that tends to happen that I totally overdo it because I can finally get off my butt and sort out all the things that have been looking at me accusingly all this time. I think today is one of those days and I need to be careful.
Still, I've scrubbed my kitchen, cleaned my kitchen window and repaired the cracks in the guttering by use of some duct tape, a cartridge of repair silicone and a ball-jointed bathroom-wall cleaner with a telescopic handle.
Proper bodging, that was, but it works surprisingly well. You spread the silicone on the sticky side of a strip of duct tape, lie it on the pad of the cleaner and apply carefully. Hold your breath that you got it on the right spot, and there you are!
It probably could have waited a bit longer, but on wet days that guttering wasn't just dripping, the water was pouring out of there making an astonishing amount of mess on the balcony. Plus, the constant drippy-splatty noise was driving me crazy.
So, result, but I'd better have a break and some lunch now.