Alternative guide to painting a Run.

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I'm not really sure where to put this.
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Here is an alterative way to re weather proof an Apex Run as suggested in a diary by my daughter.

COLLECT EQUIPMENT
 Wood Stain and protector
 Clean dry brushes
 Latex gloves
 4th hand towel
 Garden space with warm (baby bear) conditions

PREPARE SCENE
 Put kettle on
 Rummage in Cookie jar
 Rummage in fridge
 Make a pot of tea and rummage in Cookie jar
 Feed Spud * her guinea pig

Leave Spud to his own devices in hutch and take equipment to Spuds house.
First make sure house has been washed down with wire wool to ensure all lichen and algae (green stuff) have gone. Allow to dry helping by rubbing wood down with 4th hand towel. Drink tea.

Put on latex gloves and remove lid from wood stain using either a gadget for purpose or one of dad’s screw drivers. Drink more tea. Stir wood stain with end of wooden spoon found in kitchen draw.
Rummage in Cookie jar.

Paint stain on wood, including all crevices joins and hinges (only ‘cos they get in the way). Allow to dry, meanwhile put kettle on and rummage in Cookie jar.

Check house has dried enough to move and stain parts that have been missed. Drink tea.

Put lid back on wood stain. Throw paint brush and 4th hand towel into incinerator hiding under other rubbish so dad doesn’t see. Put latex gloves in bin and take tea-pot with Cookie jar out into garden and catch a few sun rays with Spud.

I had to think what would make a towel 4th hand. I can only guess. New, used in the utility room, guinea-pig baths, for hubby and son after working on the many vehicles they possess.
 
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That is brilliant.......love the fact the cookie jar gets a LOT of mentions ;)

Sounds like Spud scores pretty well too, he gets to play and eat and then catch some sunrays with your daughter awwwwwwwwwww x)x)
 
that's just brilliant :-) now i know why it takes handimen so long to do anything...the number of tea breaks! ;-)
 
Piggyologist said:
brilliant! thanks for sharing :D
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My pleasure. I'm so glad she put things like this to paper, it gives us a smile, like a photograph it is a moment captured in time to hold for ever :(|)

My husband corrected me. Christine kept journals not diarys. It started when we took the children on a classic car rally across Germany. It was hard with the 4-up but worth every squashed minute. We took the kids out of school for one week to complete the trip to Switzerland. Christine had to keep a journal to return in full to the Headmaster on her return to prove it wasn't a 'Sun and Sand' holiday.
She scribbled every evening about the map reading, the maths (km to miles) the road signs the people we met and the repairs.

After that she continued to do it. We discovered note books on her White Water Rafting, Ice Climbing, camping in The Netherlands and her 18th birthday in London.
This exerpt was taken from a book I recently found where she was listing things for the flat she was about to buy with her boyfriend.
I noticed he had added Xbox on the page for a sofa and coffee table {:|
 
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