Our weekend

We had a busy Saturday.. we had an appointment at 10am at a well respected Tattoo Parlour!!

After about a year and a half of thinking about it, I decided to have a Tattoo. Its a Triskeli.. a three sided spiral which is very special to me. Yes it hurt a bit, but nothing I couldnt cope with, and now its just a little sore like a grazed knee (no.. its on my arm!)

Douglas also got one done.. he got a Tarot Card of the Hanged Man... now.. this is not as gruesome as it sounds! Its a man in a jerkin and trousers hanging upside down by one leg, hands folded behind his back, one eye winking whilst he thinks. Odin (the God who aparantley only had one eye) spent many weeks like this in deep thought, until he was granted the runes of wisdom.

We spent the rest of the day feeling a little sore, but pleased with our new body art!

On Sunday we got on with some badly needed spring cleaning and sorting out prior to some decoration work.

Last winter (2007/8) our lounge got very badly damaged by a poorly fitted gas fire. We had lots of soot go into the room, and lots of moisture as well, which damaged parts of our plasterwork and left the walls mouldy in places.

Having got the gas fire fixed, and monitored conditions carefully this winter, we know that all is ok now, so our lovely painter Jules has been spending the day repairing the blown plaster and putting a "size" on the walls to stop any damp coming in from outside. He has re painted the ceiling and even hoovered up after himeself!!!!!!! He truly is a star :-)

I think he will do the walls tomorrow once hes got the paint, and I must ask him not to close the lounge door when he finishes.. the poor moggies were both cross legged when we came in - even to the point of being more interested in doing their business outside than eating!

Oh also on Sunday evening we went out with my parents to see Coppeilia which was lovely. We sat quite a long way back, but still had a good view!