Beating the traffic

Unlike many others we didn't go out for the day today, to make the most of the fantastically sunny Bank Holiday. We did go to Hillside, but I don't count that as 'going out'.

Amongst other things, we (or rather C) finished undercoating the window frames with more Auro paint and primed the new front and back door frames. I finished one of Friday's jobs, which was the removal of a rather nasty 70s hearth in the old dining room. It has now been stripped back to the original brick and flagstone. Most satisfying of all, I spent a couple of hours in the sun cutting back half the bramble patch, burning the cuttings on a bonfire as I went. Not very carbon neutral I know, but proved to be a very effective way of clearing the most overgrown part of the garden.

As we returned back to the annexe after our busy, but rewarding, day we couldn't help seeing the 3 lanes of stationary cars on the east-bound M4. Happy Easter!