First 2012 Visit to Foresters

After several days of wind and rain, today dawned bright and calm, but fairly cold. I over-dressed with this in mind, but found myself mainly inside where there were now industrial heaters everywhere to allow plastering and painting to take place, so I was as hot as if it had been summer when I had far less on!

Everyone was welcoming and it was ‘Happy New Years’ all around, and whilst at the garages that lie immediately behind the high street shops, I met someone who reminded me that I had been at the site since the very first brick was laid, and another who said I must have taken a couple of hundred shots since I had been coming to the site! More like thousands, but I was not counting.

Several more kitchens and bathrooms were going in, lifts were being installed and coving being cut to size and fitted. Everyone seemed to be enjoying their work and smiling, and I put this down largely to the sunshine. Someone came up and said he had passed on my good wishes to Sean Mooney, and said he would probably welcome a call, so I feel another ‘Happy New Year’ coming on.

Citroen B24 – A new Coat of Paint

Sunday heralded a surprise – Lizzy phoned to ask whether she might come over. What a silly question! I was delighted, especially as she said she was setting off straightway. An hour or so later I received a text which read “Just Leaving. XXX” I had begun to accept that this might be the case and replied with “Your tea is cold.” and a short while later: “I presume that was to give me time to tidy up?”! We spent some time in Luton shopping, chatting and chuckling. I had also been invited to dinner at Glory and Richard, once I had learnt he was back from sea where he had been First Mate on a Sailing ship plying the American Easter seaboard, So after our lunch together I changed up a gear and got myself better dressed for my evening with my sister in law, Richard, her husband, and friend ‘Uncle Tom’.

Upon my arrival Glory was cooking venison, and so as Alex was painting his fully stripped down racing car, the Citroen B24, I took off to see how he and Scott were faring. I came across them towards the end of the day’s toils, and took a few shots of the pair of them working and the separated chassis and bodywork, and noted evidence of their having already begun the celebrating of their handiwork! Scott was very keen that I show the reflections from their hard work on the penultimate coat on the bodywork, so after a shot which really did show strong reflections from a skylight when it was undercover he insisted we manhandle it out into the open. I duly tried to capture the high gloss outside, and then we had to carry it back under cover, and it was seriously heavy!

Alex is hoping that by close of Tuesday it will be complete, and he plans taking it onto the Continent again for a holiday.

The pair cleaned up the paint they had acquired on themselves and we all went back to the house for a thoroughly enjoyable dinner.