Reds and frustration

 

different light certainly changes things.

I'm still drawn to the second one up.

Fresca suggests stripes.....maybe!

The Oily One reminded me that we used a nice deep red from Farrow and Ball over 14 years ago in the hall of our terraced house...built 1861...a little like a combination of the two bottom colours. It matched the original paint on the wall under a dozen thicknesses of paper.

In the first picture you can see at the bottom the cloth that I was intending to use to cover the dark red sofa bed.  I'm not sure now!!

Most of today has been a waste of time and very frustrating.

When I chose this French course, it was because it is an in person course, not online.

I knew there was homework.

I did not know that this would have to be submitted online....

The first complication was that it came in a microsoft presentation.

ok....used Libre Office....downloaded, opened.

but for every "slide" of the homework with questions, the next slide has the answers....so what am I supposed to do...and then transfer it to the student portal on their website.?

I will do that bit of the homework...nearly finished writing the answers on paper and got most correct...but I haven't found what else is needed!

Apparently I have to write something...

I've been looking at it from all directions...

So I emailed the tutor...at least she knows that it isn't that I can't be bothered. And I'll keep plugging at the problem. 

It is exceedingly frustrating.  And tiring. And yet another day with no exercise which makes one even more tired...

as one might say in French...

                  Bah!!

vaguely productive

 Still the hunt for a box proceeds....there is one in the local Emporium...but it is a vintage article with an ink pront on the end showing company details etc. Too good to paint over. I went to a few shops....no luck...

Then a double check at the opticians to be sure that the drops have worked...all ok, one more day of drops to go and a scrip for hydrating eye drops after that. It is probable that the spray for my sinuses is drying my eyes......ENT and all that!!

Home, and a couple more paint tests....

I'll take another photo in daylight. Each colour has its good points, it is a difficult choice!!

Now it is leçon and lights out time.

All this "peopling" is tiring!!

constructive

 Today was the collective's meeting in the gallery...get together, see where we are and what needs doing!

The set out of the gallery is changing. Making it more likely, hopefully that people will come in and browse at least...

Then lunch at the cafe there and off to a certain DiY store...more paint samples and a set of legs to lift a plinth to a better height. 

Home again, and I might be getting a few sales of bike equipment. They needed listing and photographing

It feels odd....even though I wont race again..I know there are some my age and older still racing.   But obviously their body doesn't say "Why?" when they go to race and train!!  And racing is their hobby.

Whereas riding s bike has been something I've always done...and the racing was fun ..but extra....and I am a potter who wants to pot...a needlewoman who wants to ply her needle...a gardener who needs to grow.

You can't do it all....especially when you are alone.

not much

 Another wet and windy day...not much going on outside..or indoors....

I had a short walk just before dusk....and got back just as it started raining again...good timing!

I did get a batch of yoghurt started...that is making itself overnight.

I must remember that there is a meeting in the gallery tomorrow. 

A few things will change...new members, plinths to be organised...and good to review how we did last year. Plus set a date for repainting!

Glasgow Saturday #2

 I took a different route from the bust stop today..not along Sauchiehall Street, but the next one up..it goes out from BuchananStreet where the bus station is....past the College of Music.....and building sites..and buildings of all ages...

and the Glasgow School of Art....to Garnethill..and to Charing Cross...

Then the footbridge over the junction to the more "genteel" area...

and the lovely building of the Alliance Française and Goethe Institute

and the lesson...which went well

Baltic!!

 It was bitterly cold as I waited for the bus today...Baltic, as they say.

Checked in at the Dancing Thistle...reassuring her that the latest money from Sales went through ok. She is settling nicely in her new premises.

Lunch in Waterstones and I saw that I had a missed call...from the Opticians that I'd phoned first thing....walked along to see them and instead of missing part of tomorrow's lesson to get back to Ayr, they had a cancellation.

Time to walk over to the other side of the river where I'd bought the laptop...for instructions on how to find accents...go to settings...change language!!

Back to the opticians...I have the beginnings of conjunctivitis...so five days of eye drops four times a day ..and check back next Tuesday. You never realise how difficult it is when the inside of the upper eyelid needs to be looked at.....

Which left time to finish off with the French Conversation group. Just five of us and our teacher was away...but we managed ok!!

Clearing the way

 I read about clearing energy pathways in the house, ready for Chinese New Year..the Fire Horse on the 17th of this month I think.

Daughter said it was just common sense!

Whichever way you look at it, it feels better. 

I've done the hallway and stairs..

shoeracks and linenbasket will stay...

As it was cold wet and windy out there...Baltic in other words...this was good exercise!!

the wheel in the Saltire bag is on its way out, the bag of sprockets and chainrings need to be taken to the track again, hopefully to sell.

bedroom, living room and kitchen are inching towards improvement.

study and sewing/bike room have had bike stuff returned to them for now...but they are still usable rooms.

Then I put my feet up.....and researched basic hotel prices....

13 nights in a budget Ibis hotel in Limoges...£530 or so... a little discount for longer stay and a little more for being a member...which cost me nothing. Not the one I wanted right near the station....but only 5km out...a decent walk...and there are buses.

Then I looked at one night near Edinburgh airport on the way home....from £160 upwards....and not the nearest....so I went for the second nearest...a five minute bus ride...good old Travelodge...and even that was £122. Monday is an expensive day....

I'm booking direct with each hotel group...far better than the various booking sites..which take a considerable percentage and are not the easiest to work with when you run a hotel.

Landing back after 9pm means that the furthest I could get by bus at that time of night would be Glasgow....

I think that is all I need to organise now...apart from my bag!!

Adding the expenses up it feels a lot in a way..but then I look at what I could have easily paid without being careful....and it is for two weeks. I know how to be frugal too...and the emphasis will be on photography, drawing, relaxing....and a lot of walking!!