Just been conned

Wife has a new interest - doing up old furniture

(okay, 1 week later - she likes it when I sand the furniture down, repair and re-paint paint them now she knows how much work is involved)

She also enjoys renovations at home

So here I am, removing all my clothes from the chest of draws from five big, deep draws so she can sell them and replace with her re-furbished set

And they have been replaced with "suitable" draws, that only fit my male clothes.

Perhaps my revenge should be storing all my female clothes on the lounge chairs (will mean I have to "lose" quite a few of her cushions).

So now most of my girl clothes live in boxes in the shed, so I need to plan a bit more before going out. Before the draw changes I had coffee out like.....

But now it's like whatever I can grab on the way out

Newmarket shopping

 It's been a while, but I'm finally back for lunch at Newmarket shopping mall.

I chose a summer tee shirt and wore the yoga pants that I found at an Op Shop that wife and I visited. Sorry about the lack of make up, but sometimes this old girl is just to busy for the fussy stuff.
I've been after a high speed SD card for a while (wasn't urgent) as I was using an old card from my drone, in my new insta360 camera. At the mall, I walked past Noel Lemmings, so while having lunch, I went online to check their prices, not bad at all so I paid them a visit.

The nice sales woman asked where I got my pants from and are they comfortable, so I told her about the Op Shop and yes, they are the most comfortable type of pants ever. It was a lovely chat, which also included technical stuff about the SD card.

As soon as I got home, I just had to test the card out, now I have four and a half hours recording available at 5K7 resolution - super happy about that.

A couple of mornings this week, was just a quick coffee stop, normally on the way to fetch furniture, for my wife as she learns how to renovate stuff.

Sometimes you wake up wanting stocking and mini skirts

Wife went to bed very late, so I knew she would sleep in. I can't do that and it doesn't help if I'm thinking of mini skirts and stockings.

So out for an early coffee.

So while everyone else got their cofee, I waited, and waited and waited, eventually got fed up and asked staff if order #185 was ready yet.

2 minutes later I got an barista coffee that tasted like instant coffee, with a "here you are sir"

Their wifi wasn't working either, so decided to try getting a decent coffee at another shop.

Next stop, good coffee and free wifi so all good, but I did get changed first as I felt under dressed 😁

Apart from the odd visit to the supermarket, I've not really been in the mood to dress too often in the last week or so. 

Wife has started a hobby that needs some significant carpentry repairs - that falls to me to fix.

I've also removed 4 downlights and re-fittted a centre light fitting in the room, patched up the old holes (still need to re-paint the ceiling). She now wants me to level another section of the garden as the shallow slope has no viable use except planting.

Starting to feel the chill of winters approach

So my young grandkids are staying in a cold rental house, it's got the minuim legal requirements (underfloor and ceiling insulation and 1 heat pump in the living room). The house also has ill fitting single glaze aluminuim framed windows that the cold wind whistles through.

Being a rental, absolutely no holes allowed in anything and not allowed to mark the bad interior paint work, so how can I do some sort of double glazing???

Perhaps twinwall polycarb, with an interferance fit into the frame might be the answer?

A test at my house (with heater on) had a 10 degree difference between the glass and the plastic - 9 degree C for the glass, 19 for the plastic. 

So today I go to the supplier dressed in jeans and strippy jumper to get a couple of large sheets before visiting the mall.

Around lunch time, it was getting a bit warm, so I swapped my jumper for a cardigan and decided to visit a cute cafe for Devonshire tea.

On the way home I had to pick up wifes medication and get a couple of items from the supermarket (milk, makeup remover wipe etc).

Eventually I had to change into boy mode, and install the twinwall polycarb (because my car is very cramped with the sheets in it so I'm not waiting until next weekend). Just got to wait a day or two to find out how it's changed the rooms temperature.

UPDATE - getting lots of thanks from family only hours after installing the twinwall, toes not frozen and granddad is a great engineer 😀

City trip

Okay, I'm still using the camera that's so real - it's very unflattering, yet I need to learn the techniques to make snappy videos.

So apologies if this old man decides to dress up in what is hopefully "business style" and visited the city last week. 

It's interesting when you cross dress (doesn't apply to females dressed in jeans and boyfriend shirts) how many of those people you pass, decided to re-check what they are seeing. I didn't notice or care before, but now I notice and still don't care.

So most of you know I like to sit and relax with a coffee, well Friday I decided my second coffee would be in the city.

There was an extremely good singer who reminded me of one of my Ex's that sang like an angel. I tried to get my Ex interested in seeing a promotor, but she told me (1980's) that to be singer in a band she needed to learn an instrument. I hope someone notices this young girl, she was better than anyone on America's Got Tallent.

After leaving a donation in her collection box and a quick chat, as I was leaving a couple of ladies a bit younger than myself commented how good I looked as I passed - very happy about that and we ended up having a chat for a few minutes. Love compliments.