Bank Holiday Galore!

Whoops, sorry it's been a while! In my defence I have been busy and then too tired the rest of the time!

There have been what feels like a million bank holidays which really don't affect my life that much as I don't work on Fridays or Mondays! However Pete has been off work as he took the days off in-between, so we have had a busy two weeks. Back to normality now and a chance to rest!

We started off Good Friday by commencing decorate the living room. We started by Pete stripping the back wall and I did the borders for the paint. We finally finished on Tuesday after having to apply four coats of paint along with doing all the glossing and killing the mould on the wall, so that my mum could put up the wallpaper on Wednesday whilst we were away. I do not like decorating one bit, it's messy, there's crap everywhere, your house stinks and to top it all off we had to wear masks when it was really warm, I don't enjoy feeling like I can't breathe when I’m already out of breath from moving around so much! There are some pictures of us in our sexy masks on Pete's phone but I’ll leave that for another day.... Just a note to those with CF, when stripping wallpaper you should wear a mask as mould likes to grow under wallpaper (advised by my physio), I could physically see the mould growing under ours but even if you can't see it, there could be small particles. A normal dusk mask is not good enough as mould particles are so small they can still get through, you need to get a mask that is FFP2 or FFP3 (it's printed on the mask), and FFP1 isn't good enough. I found this out after researching on the internet, click here for the link.

Here is our living room before,


After!




On Wednesday we drove down to Kent as it was finally our trip to Hever Castle! We stayed in Tunbridge Wells on the Wednesday night and went out for a meal which involved me walking up a very steep hill on the way back! Then on the Thursday after a rough start as Travelodge just decided to turn the water off before Pete had, had a shower, we went to Hever Castle. Here are some photos from the day

Then on Friday it was the Royal Wedding of course! Yes I think I am a royalist, I loved it! How can you not love the fact the Queen is riding in a 100 year old carriage or all the beautiful clothes or all the tradition, I think it’s great! My friend came around to watch it with me as Pete went to the rugby; she brought some lovely cupcakes with her with Will and Kate on so I forgave her for being half an hour late and missing most of the ceremony!

She was planning to stay all day but I had to ask her to go home in the afternoon as I really needed to have a nap and just be by myself so I could relax a little, I was so tired I wasn’t being a very good hostess. She then came back in the afternoon and somehow I ended up dying her hair and we got a takeaway. I also got a text from Pete saying he was on Sky sports as they’d videoed him and his mates wearing masks of the royal family at the rugby. So if you were watching the Leeds Rhinos game and you saw some idiots wearing masks, my husband was the Queen!

We went to church on Easter Sunday and then to my Nana’s for a Sunday roast which was nice. Then we have also been to a barbeques at my mum’s and I also went out for tea with my friends on Sunday.

So like I say I have been very busy and as a result feeling very tired! I’m just going to try take this week easy as we are going on holiday soon and I don’t want to end up ill and spending my whole holiday sleeping and feeling exhausted. I think Alfie is due a few walks this week though as he has been neglected slightly and been very well behaved so deserves them! By the way here is a picture of our new fridge freezer, it finally arrived after lots of complaining by me and ended up being delivered in a car by one oldish man, I was very worried but it worked out in the end..!

Presents On Our Doorstep

Well I have only injured my fingers once more since my last post, this time I managed to get a key stuck into my flesh whilst trying to lift it off a hook, the result was three gashes in my finger, one which insisted on bleeding every time I took the plaster off for about two days. I now seem to have got a hair stuck in it from when I've been cutting hair and I can't get it out, so now it hurts when pressure is put on it! Six days have passed and no injury, so perhaps that part of my life is over now, phew!

We have ordered our new fridge freezer, we went for the retro one as we found a website that sold it alot cheaper online, whether it turns up is a different matter! Pete, my dad and brother took out the old one on Saturday and got rid of the integrated cupboard, the freezer is still working for now, I hope it doesn't pack in before the new one arrives! We need to put some flooring where the cupboard was else the new fridge freezer will not be level, Pete says there are some spare in the garage and he'll just need to saw them to fit them in the gap. I hope it is as simple as he says! We all know Pete and I are not the best at DIY!

I've not been up to much this week, we have a few expensive weeks coming up so we are saving our money for those! However I did go out for a pub tea with my friends last Friday and then an Italian with my family on Saturday for my brothers birthday, so not doing too bad! That reminds me, I had serious gutwack on Sunday morning. I don't think I took enough tablets with my meal! I was sweating all night and then woke up in the morning with terrible stomach and back ache. This was proceeded by me sitting on the toilet for so long Pete came to check that I was OK and when I left I advised him not to use the bathroom for a while. Not pleasant and I won't go into anymore details of what gutwack consists of as it ain't pretty!

We have Hever Castle coming soon and I'm majorly excited! We are also going to decorate the front room over Easter and I've already purchased the wallpaper. I've been investigating my options as to how I can prevent breathing in any fungus when we strip the wallpaper. A CF friend suggested these special light bulbs that destroy any spores that come into contact with the bulb (http://www.eudemonuk.co.uk) so I'm going to order one of those and then get a mask specifically to stop you breathing in mould spores.

This morning Pete found two little bottles of Tropicana on our doorstep! I was straight away suspicious whereas Pete thought it was nice. Anyway Pete has drunk his and is still alive and I looked on the Internet and it seems it's some kind of promotion! They are on every ones doorsteps so now I'm starting to think it's nice too, maybe I should become more trusting..?