Happy Birthday to me, and oggbashantoo

[stickygirl]

A man of many talents and names!
Happy belated birthday Mr Ogg xxx

 

[NaokoSmith]

Happy Birthday, dear Ogg!

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(Hope you are both feeling much much better.)

 

[oggbashan]

Happy Birthday, dear Ogg!

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(Hope you are both feeling much much better.)

Thank you for the wishes, and the cake.

We are at the stage when we think we are better until we try to do something, then have a ferocious coughing fit and decide perhaps we're not better yet.

We had intended to go to a historic garden today for the last day of their Tulip festival but it was too far away for the weakened condition we're in. It would have been a 120 mile round trip but the last 20 miles each way on small rural roads.

Tomorrow my wife is doing some last minute German tutoring for a daughter's friend's teeanage son. She should have done it weeks ago, but he is a teenage boy who leaves study to the last minute. His exam is on Monday!

We might go to a historic garden on Sunday, but a closer one.

Now? We have to go shopping to buy all the things we should have bought during the week when we were lying around as pallid heaps.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Thank you for the wishes, and the cake.

We are at the stage when we think we are better until we try to do something, then have a ferocious coughing fit and decide perhaps we're not better yet.

We had intended to go to a historic garden today for the last day of their Tulip festival but it was too far away for the weakened condition we're in. It would have been a 120 mile round trip but the last 20 miles each way on small rural roads.

Migosh, that sounds like a bit much for me at my best! never mind in a weakened condition.

I have been coughing and spluttering too, but I think mine is hay fever. There seems to be a lot of pollen around in the wake of that fine weather we have just had.

*sneeze*

 

[trysail]

Og-
I'm late but, nevertheless, send birthday greetings and best wishes.




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[oggbashan]

Thank you for all the wishes.

Despite hay fever and the remaining cough, I have managed to start repainting my seven foot high garden wall. So far only one eleven foot panel has its first coat, but four more panels have been prepared for painting.

Can I get away with two coats? Or do I need three?

My painting is amusing the tourists, particularly as I have two cats as foremen.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Can I get away with two coats? Or do I need three?

My painting is amusing the tourists, particularly as I have two cats as foremen.

I think a man with two pussies needs three coats at least! I just hope your cats are not all fur coat and no ...


(Seriously if the hay fever and cold are getting to you, I am sure two coats will be enough! I only put two on my shed and it looks top dollar - see pix in Garden Shed thread.)

 

[Handley_Page]

Thank you for all the wishes.

Despite hay fever and the remaining cough, I have managed to start repainting my seven foot high garden wall. So far only one eleven foot panel has its first coat, but four more panels have been prepared for painting.

Can I get away with two coats? Or do I need three?

My painting is amusing the tourists, particularly as I have two cats as foremen.

Have you considered a spray gun thing ?
[do not forget the mask]

 

[oggbashan]

Have you considered a spray gun thing ?
[do not forget the mask]

No thank you, HP. The wall surface, despite my preparation and filling, is very uneven. A spray gun would put too much paint on some parts, and not enough on others. I use a 2" brush and textured masonry paint.

The PAINTING is easy and quick. It's the preparation that takes the time. I've painted two more panels today, and finished the preparation of another three to be painted tomorrow, or Tuesday, or whenever the weather permits.

The next panel will take far longer to prepare. It needs major filling and smoothing and hasn't been painted properly for 20 years. I gave it a quick cover-over eight years ago because I didn't have time to repair it properly. In places it will need filling, leaving to dry, a further layer of filler, leave to dry, then prime, then paint...

 

[Handley_Page]

No thank you, HP. The wall surface, despite my preparation and filling, is very uneven. A spray gun would put too much paint on some parts, and not enough on others. I use a 2" brush and textured masonry paint.

The PAINTING is easy and quick. It's the preparation that takes the time. I've painted two more panels today, and finished the preparation of another three to be painted tomorrow, or Tuesday, or whenever the weather permits.

The next panel will take far longer to prepare. It needs major filling and smoothing and hasn't been painted properly for 20 years. I gave it a quick cover-over eight years ago because I didn't have time to repair it properly. In places it will need filling, leaving to dry, a further layer of filler, leave to dry, then prime, then paint...

Rather you than me, Ogg.
When my neighbour had a concrete panelled wall, I naturally, got the "rough" side, but was told in no uncertain terms by his wife that 'pain shoud not be applied', for fear it would leach through the space to that side.
So I planted some ivy. It's worked. so far.

 

[TxRad]

Rather you than me, Ogg.
When my neighbour had a concrete panelled wall, I naturally, got the "rough" side, but was told in no uncertain terms by his wife that 'pain shoud not be applied', for fear it would leach through the space to that side.
So I planted some ivy. It's worked. so far.

Ivy looks good but it eats the concrete. Not to mention planting roots in the cracks and pores.

 

[Delilah_Night]

Happy Birthday!